Critical Care ID Jeopardy

Empiric treatment for pyelonephritis warranting hospitalization (but not acutely life-threatening septic shock) in a patient without MDRO risk factors

Empiric therapy for community-acquired pneumonia warranting ICU admission, but no MDR risk factors

Empiric therapy for meningitis in a 62-year-old

Empiric therapy for community-acquired empyema

Empiric therapy for necrotizing fasciitis

Vancomycin side effect that is treated by slowing the infusion rate

Neurologic side effect of carbepenems

Cefepime side effect with increased risk in renal failure

Risk of this linezolid side effect is increased with fentanyl infusions

Pulmonary toxicity of daptomycin

Physical examination that needs to be performed for candidemic patients

Fungi that can lead to a positive beta-D-glucan (name 2)

Indication for steroids in PJP pneumonia

Therapeutic procedure sometimes required for severe cryptococcal infection to preserve neurological outcomes

Treatment for an immunocompromised patient with a positive galactomannan and CT findings showing halo sign

Treatment for fulminant colitis from C-diff

Name 6 drugs that cover MRSA

Name 4 drugs that cover pseudomonas

Name 3 surgical indications for CT surgery in left-sided native valve infected endocarditis

This disease caused an epidemic in Denmark that sparked the first medical ICU with the use of positive pressure ventilators

Ehrlich's magic bullet Salvarsan was essentially modified arsenic, the first synthesized directed antimicrobial, which was sued to treat this infectious disease rampant in the early 1900s

This US president was shot in the lower back and survived, only to be killed by the several doctors who probed his wound, causing infection and eventual septic shock

Most likely pathogen in the following case: a 34-year-old who initially presented for pharyngitis, which progressed to severe illness with septic emboli on chest CT and thrombosis of the internal jugular vein