Lower Respiratory Tract Infections Flashcards
What is the Triad of infectious disease?
Host
Enviroment
Pathogen
What does parenchymal inflitrate in a chest x-ray indicate?
pneumonia
What is Acute pneumonia most often caused by?
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Klebsiella pneumoniae is rare because?
It is a gram Negative pneumoniae
When and which host do you see viral pneumoniae?
In children
Lower lobar pneumonia is also known as?
Lung hepatization
Is haemophilus pneumoniae common?
no it as largely disappeared
When an infection is in the pleural space it is called?
empyema
What are the 2 types of walking pneumonia?
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Chlamydophila Pneumoniae
how can you treat atypical pneumonia?
With non-beta-lactam antibiotics
What pneumonia puts you in a coma?
Aspiration pneumonia
What are three complications of acute bacterial pneumonia?
Necrotizing pneumonitis
Lung abscess
Empyema
How do you manage acute pneumonia?
with Empiric perscription
With chronic pneumonia it is important that you don’t do what kind of treatment?
NO empiric treatment
