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NU641 Week 13 Quiz Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Nasal corticosteroids for allergic rhinitis (7), 🗹🗹: -Beclomethasone
-Budesonide
-Ciclesonide
-Flunisolone
-Fluticasone
-Mometasone
-Triamcinolone
Q: Inhaled corticosteroids (4), 🗹🗹: -Beclomethasone HFA
-Budesonide DPI & neubulizer
-Flunisolide HFA & MDI
-Mometasone DPI
Q: Best treatment for allergic rhinitis with symptoms of nasal congestion/runny nose,
🗹🗹: Inhaled nasal steroid (glucocorticoid) for long-term use
Q: For children with acute viral URIs do not use (3), 🗹🗹: -Systemic decongestants
-Nasal corticosteroids
-Systemic antimicrobial agents
Q: Productive cough responds well to, 🗹🗹: -Preparations containing codeine
-Don't use if congestion cannot be mobilized
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Q: Treatment if patient has congestion, productive cough, and tenacious mucous,
🗹🗹: -Expectorant that thins (guaifenesin)
-Cough suppressant
Q: Adult with acute sinusitis and has child in daycare treatment, 🗹🗹: Amoxicillin-
clavulanate 500 mg twice daily for 7 days
Q: Respiratory fluoroquinolone examples, 🗹🗹: -Levofloxacin
-Moxifloxacin
Q: Effective treatment in bacterial sinusitis if patient is anticholinergic to penicillin (2),
🗹🗹: -Respiratory fluoroquinolone
-Doxycycline
Q: Best therapy for CAP if patient has been on antimicrobial therapy in recent past,
🗹🗹: -Combination therapy (beta-lactam plus macrolide)
Q: Treatment for CAP not caused by drug resistant strep pneumoniae not recently
taking abx, 🗹🗹: -Macrolide such as azithromycin which can be used in patients with
comorbidities like diabetes
Q: Caution when using fluoroquinolone in patients with, 🗹🗹: -Cardiac conditions
-Can prolong QT
Q: If patient has hematuria and a negative culture..., 🗹🗹: further workup is needed
to rule out more serious conditions (badder cancer)
Q: Recurrent UTI, 🗹🗹: -Infection caused by different organisms
-More common
Q: Relapsing UTI, 🗹🗹: -Infection caused by same organism
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Q: Recurrent UTI risk factors, 🗹🗹: -History of UTIs before age 15
-Incontinence
-Diabetes
-High post-void residual
-Intercourse
-Hx of UTI while pregnant
-Pelvic floor prolapse
-Use of catheters
Q: Prophylactic abx and UTIs, 🗹🗹: Typically decrease frequency to less than one per
year
Q: Self-start abx for UTI (3), 🗹🗹: -Option for women who can identify UTI symptoms
early and do not want to take abx prohylactically
-Start taking abx once symptoms appear
-Contact prescriber if symptoms still present after 24 hours
Q: Good first line agent for UTI, 🗹🗹: -Cotrimoxal
-For reasonably healthy individuals not previously taking abx
-Avoid in sulfa-sensitive individuals
Q: UTI prophylaxis abx, 🗹🗹: -Cotrimoxazole
-Cephalexin
-Nitrofurantoin
Q: Prolonged used of nitrofurantoin side effects (2), 🗹🗹: -Peripheral neuropathy
-Liver & lung toxicity
NU641 Week 13 Quiz Questions and
Answers (Expert Solutions)
Q: Nasal corticosteroids for allergic rhinitis (7), 🗹🗹: -Beclomethasone
-Budesonide
-Ciclesonide
-Flunisolone
-Fluticasone
-Mometasone
-Triamcinolone
Q: Inhaled corticosteroids (4), 🗹🗹: -Beclomethasone HFA
-Budesonide DPI & neubulizer
-Flunisolide HFA & MDI
-Mometasone DPI
Q: Best treatment for allergic rhinitis with symptoms of nasal congestion/runny nose,
🗹🗹: Inhaled nasal steroid (glucocorticoid) for long-term use
Q: For children with acute viral URIs do not use (3), 🗹🗹: -Systemic decongestants
-Nasal corticosteroids
-Systemic antimicrobial agents
Q: Productive cough responds well to, 🗹🗹: -Preparations containing codeine
-Don't use if congestion cannot be mobilized
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Q: Treatment if patient has congestion, productive cough, and tenacious mucous,
🗹🗹: -Expectorant that thins (guaifenesin)
-Cough suppressant
Q: Adult with acute sinusitis and has child in daycare treatment, 🗹🗹: Amoxicillin-
clavulanate 500 mg twice daily for 7 days
Q: Respiratory fluoroquinolone examples, 🗹🗹: -Levofloxacin
-Moxifloxacin
Q: Effective treatment in bacterial sinusitis if patient is anticholinergic to penicillin (2),
🗹🗹: -Respiratory fluoroquinolone
-Doxycycline
Q: Best therapy for CAP if patient has been on antimicrobial therapy in recent past,
🗹🗹: -Combination therapy (beta-lactam plus macrolide)
Q: Treatment for CAP not caused by drug resistant strep pneumoniae not recently
taking abx, 🗹🗹: -Macrolide such as azithromycin which can be used in patients with
comorbidities like diabetes
Q: Caution when using fluoroquinolone in patients with, 🗹🗹: -Cardiac conditions
-Can prolong QT
Q: If patient has hematuria and a negative culture..., 🗹🗹: further workup is needed
to rule out more serious conditions (badder cancer)
Q: Recurrent UTI, 🗹🗹: -Infection caused by different organisms
-More common
Q: Relapsing UTI, 🗹🗹: -Infection caused by same organism
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Q: Recurrent UTI risk factors, 🗹🗹: -History of UTIs before age 15
-Incontinence
-Diabetes
-High post-void residual
-Intercourse
-Hx of UTI while pregnant
-Pelvic floor prolapse
-Use of catheters
Q: Prophylactic abx and UTIs, 🗹🗹: Typically decrease frequency to less than one per
year
Q: Self-start abx for UTI (3), 🗹🗹: -Option for women who can identify UTI symptoms
early and do not want to take abx prohylactically
-Start taking abx once symptoms appear
-Contact prescriber if symptoms still present after 24 hours
Q: Good first line agent for UTI, 🗹🗹: -Cotrimoxal
-For reasonably healthy individuals not previously taking abx
-Avoid in sulfa-sensitive individuals
Q: UTI prophylaxis abx, 🗹🗹: -Cotrimoxazole
-Cephalexin
-Nitrofurantoin
Q: Prolonged used of nitrofurantoin side effects (2), 🗹🗹: -Peripheral neuropathy
-Liver & lung toxicity