A patient is being discharged from the emergency department…
A patient is being discharged from the emergency department for a moderate skin and soft tissue infection. The team is looking to send the patient home on antibiotics and prescribes therapy for a 3 week duration. The antibiotic prescription is called in to your pharmacy. What should your response be to this duration based on this information provided?
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A 31-year-old female with a history of injection drug use presents with emergency department complaining of a 3-day history of fever, chills, loss of appetite and dyspnea on exertion. Transthoracic echocardiogram showed a vegetation present on the native tricuspid valve and blood culture reveal Staphylococcus aureus, susceptible to oxacillin. She has her aortic valve replaced with prosthetic valve and she is successfully treated with nafcillinfor 6 weeks. No however, 8 months later she presents again with these symptoms, and blood cultures confirm MSSA with a 4.5cm vegetation revealed on imaging confirming endocarditis. How should you now treat this patient?
Read DetailsPassage Identification: “Why do you look back?” said one i…
Passage Identification: “Why do you look back?” said one in the procession to his partner. “I had a fancy,” replied she, “that the minister and the maiden’s spirit were walking hand in hand.” “And so had I, at the same moment,” said the other.” The above passage is from:
Read DetailsPassage Identification: “At night in any kind of light, in…
Passage Identification: “At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be.” The passage above is from:
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