Other Facts

Question 1

Abx with poor CNS penetration

Answer 1

Pip-tazo, cefazolin, aminoglycosides, clinda, dapto, echinocandins, itraconazole

Question 2

Bacteria that can count as contaminants

Answer 2

Coag negative staph, strep viridans, corynebacteria

Question 3

Rigler’s sign

Answer 3

When the bowel walls are very visible (as white lines) on x-ray because there is pneumoperitoneum

Question 4

Pneumotosis intestinalis

Answer 4

Air in the bowel wall characteristic of NEC

Question 5

Extra-pulmonary manifestations of mycoplasma pneumonia

Answer 5

Cold hemagluttanin hemolytic anemia, mucocutaneous sequelae (erthema nodosum, SJS, mucositis), meningoencephalitis, cerebellar ataxia

Question 6

Empiric antibiotic treatment for mycoplasma pneumonia

Answer 6

10 mg/kg in one dose (maximum dose 500 mg) orally or intravenously (IV) on the first day and 5 mg/kg in one dose (maximum dose 250 mg) for the next four days