| WHAT DO I HAVE? | TB OR NOT TB | TREATMENT | TREATMENTS CONTINUED | MORE INFECTIONS |
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What is CAT SCRATCH DISEASE
HEADACHE, FEVER, MALAISE, AND TENDER REGIONAL LYMPHADENOPATHY ABOUT A WEEK AFTER CAT BITE
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What is NIGHT SWEATS, FEVER, COUGH, HEMOPTYSIS, PLEURITIC CHEST PAIN T
SYMPTOMS FOR TB
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What is SYPHILLIS
PCN G OR TETRACYCLINE QID X 15 days or ERYTHROMYCIN QID X 15 days
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What is SHINGLES OR HERPES ZOSTER
ACYCLOVIR AND ORAL ANALGESICS ARE USED TO TREAT THIS
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What is THE VERY YOUNG, ELDERLY AND IMMUNOSUPPRESSED
WHO IS AT INCREASED RISK FOR SEPTIC SHOCK D/T INFECTIONS
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What is VARICELLA OR CHICKEN POX
1-2 DAYS OF SLIGHT MALAISE, ANOREXIA, FEVER, THEN RASH BEGINNING ON TRUNK AND SCALP
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What is INHALING TUBERCULIN LADEN DROPLETS
TB IS TRANSMITTED BY
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What is RABIES
RIG 20 IU/KG, 1/2 AT WOUND SITE, 1/2 IN DELTOID MUSCLE, HDCV 1 ML DOSES IM ON DAYS 0,3,7,14, & 28 IN DELTOID
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What is TO PROTECT HEART VALVES AND PREVENT RHEUMATIC FEVER
WHY DO YOU TREAT STREP-PHARYNGITIS WITH ATBS?
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What is FOLEY CATHETER
WHAT COMMON INVASIVE DEVICE IS FREQUENT CAUSE OF SEPSIS IN THE ELDERLY
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What is CANDIDA ALBICANS
BEEFY RED RASH WITH SATELITE LESIONS IN SKIN FOLDS
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What is ELDERLY, HOMELESS, SUBSTANCE ABUSERS, IMMUNOCOMPROMISED/IMMUNOSUPRESSED, FOREIGN BORN FROM UNDERVELOPED AREA
THE PEOPLE AT HIGHEST RISK FOR DEVELOPING TB
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What IS P.VIVAX, P.OVALE, P. MALARIAE
CHLOROQUINE (ARALEN)
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What is THE FEVER AND ARTHRITIS OF RHEUMATIC FEVER
SALICYLATES AND BEDREST IS THE TREATMENT FOR WHAT
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What is HERPES IS ONE OF AIDS DEFINING ILLNESS - IT COULD INDICATED PT HAS CONVERTED TO AIDS
WHY BE CONCERNED IF AN HIV PATIENT DEVELOPS HERPES SIMPLEX INFECTION
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What is COLORADO TICK FEVER
SUDDEN ONSET OF FEVER, LETHARGY, RETRO ORBITAL HEADACHE, MYALGIAS,ANOREXIA, NAUSEA AND VOMITING, PHOTOPHOBIA, RECENT CAMPING TRIP
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What is ORAL ISONIAZID(INH) X 9 MOS.
THE TREATMENT FOR POSTIVE MANTOUX BUT NOT ACTIVE TB
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What is LYME DISEASE
DOXICYCLINE OR TETRACYCLINE, AMOXICILLLIN , AND IV PCN V IN PREGNANT PTS OR ERYTHROMYCIN IS USED TO TREAT WHAT
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What is CHECK ANTI HB TITER, IF OK (>10), NO TREATMENT NEEDED, IF INADEQUATE THEN VACCINE BOOSTER & SINGLE DOSE OF HBIG
WHAT IS TREATMENT FOR POST EXPOSURE OF HEP B NEEDLESTICK
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What is MINIMIZE POSSIBILITY OF RUPTURING AN ENLARGED SPLEEN
WHY SHOULD SOMEONE WITH ACUTE MONONUCLEOSIS LIMIT PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
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What is PARONYCHIA
INFECTED LATERAL NAIL FOLD
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What is AFTER 3 CONSECUTIVE SPUTUMS ARE FREE OF M. TUBERCULOSIS
WHEN ARE CLIENTS WITH TB CONSIDERED NON CONTAGIOUS
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What is ACUTE RHEUMATICE FEVER
PCN OR ERYTHROMYCIN IF CULTURES FOR GROUP A STREP ARE NEGATIVE, HIGH DOSE ASA THERAPY, IF CARDITIS OR CHF USE PREDNISONE TO TREAT WHAT
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What is JUST EXPOSED, NEED CXR TO CONFIRM
IF YOU HAVE A POSITVIE TB SKIN TEST DO YOU HAVE ACTIVE TB?
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What is INFECTIOUS MONONUCLEOSIS
AN 18 YEAR OLD DEVELOPS RASH OVER TORSO, ARMS. LEGS. AND PALMS OF HANDS- WHAT MIGHT HE HAVE
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