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| stain purple or bluish in color |
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| stain pink or reddish in color |
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| What is empirical treatment and what is the proper progression? |
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Empirical broad spectrum antibiotic treatment (that covers any possible organism) should be changed to directed antibiotic treatment as soon as possible (once gram stains are available, or preferably, specific cultures) in order to reduce the incidence of antibiotic resistance. |
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| Define Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) |
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| Lowest drug concentration that prevents microbial growth |
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| Define Minimum bactericidal concentration (MIB) |
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| lowest drug concentration that reduces bacterial density by 99.9% |
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| effect of two or more agents produces a greater effect than each agent alone. |
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| What's the philosophy of peri-operative antibtiotic prophylaxis |
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(1)short course of antibiotic administered before there is clinical evidence of infection
(2)treatment usually begins 1/2 hour before surgical incision and continues for no longer than 24 hours
(3)first generation cephs are the drugs of choice for most procedures. In pcn-allergic patients, a suitable alternative is vancomycin |
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