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Infection and Antibiotics

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What is the characteristic of CRP?

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What is the characteristic of ESR?

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What are the types of bacteria and how are they classified?

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How do you perform gram staining?

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Why do some bacteria stain purple with gram stain?

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What are the types of antibiotics?

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What is MRSA?

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How do bacteria like MRSA gain resistance?

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How do you decolonize MRSA in preoperative patients?

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What if there is a recent spate of MRSA/infection cases?

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What if you as the surgeon are MRSA positive?

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What is Clostridium difficile?

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How do you manage C. diff outbreak?

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How do you prevent C. diff outbreaks?

SEPTIC ARTHRITIS

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What are the modes of spread?

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Most common Bacteria? How about in Paeds?

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What classification?

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Open vs Arthroscopic Washout?

Necrotising Fasciitis

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What is necrotising fasciitis?

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What are the types of necrotising fasciitis?

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What causes gas gangrene?

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What scoring system is used for necrotising fasciitis?

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What investigations are needed?

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How do you manage necrotising fasciitis? What antibiotics are used?

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What antibiotics should be used if patient is allergic to penicillin?

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What are the principles of fasciectomy?

OSTEOMYELITIS

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What are the 2 types of bone in OM?

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What is a cloaca?

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What is the classification for osteomyelitis?

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Management of osteomyelitis

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Oral vs IV antibiotics?

Chronic Non-Bacterial osteomyelitis (CNO)

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What is CNO?

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What are some clinical features of CNO?

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What are the associated systemic symptoms with CNO?

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What are the phases of CNO?

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What are the differential diagnoses of CNO?

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What is the classification?

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Diagnosis of CNO/CRMO?

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Management of CRMO/CNO?

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