Questions and Answers | A+ Score
Assured
Community Acquired Pneumonia - Common Pathogens - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-
S. pneumoniae
-Mycoplasma spp.
-H. influenzae
-Staphylococcus aureus
Community Acquired Pneumonia - 1st line treatment for previously healthy
adults and what to give if 1st drug didn't work? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔1st line:
Amoxicillin, doxycycline and macrolide (Azithromycin)
Second choice: Levaquin (Fluroquinolones)
Treatment for M. Pneumoniae in pediatric patients? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Macrolides: Azithromycin, Erythromycin, Clarithromycin
,Treatment of community acquired pneumonia in pregnancy - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Amoxicillin, cephalosporins, or erythromycin
If someone has been treated w/ an antibiotic in the previous 90 days of
contracting CAP, a quinolone would be prudent choice to prescribe. Be
familiar with drug examples w/n the antibiotic class - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔"floxacin"
Genifloxacin
Ciprofloxacin
Treatment of chlamydial pneumonia in an infant? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Erythromycin 12.5 mg/kg PO QID x 14 days
When to use a broad-spectrum anitbiotic? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-before cultures
result
-critically ill patient
-empiric therapy
-pathogen is unknown or multiple types of bacteria suspected
-Gram + cocci and Gram - Bacilli
, Narrow-spectrum antibiotics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-active against only a few
species of microogranisms
-used when pathogen is known
-reduces risk of disruption of normal flora and development of antibiotic
resistance
-preferred when possible
-Gram + cocci, Gram - bacilli, gram - aerobes, mycobacterium TB
Empiric antibiotics - What are they? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Broad spectrum
antibiotics
-Ciprofloxacin, timethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, Amoxicillin
When to prescribed empiric antibiotics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔-patient has severe
infection
-before test results are available
-based on clinical evaluation and knowledge of microbes that are most
likely causing the infection
C. Diff associated diarrhea - how to treat? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Stop prior
antibiotic and start Vancomycin or Fidaxomicin or Metronidazole
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
3