Nursing Pharmacology: Antibacterial Drug Practice Questions

Clindamycin and clinical use/uses:
1. Anaerobic lung and pleural space infections.
2. Lung abscess
3. Both
4. Neither
Clindamycin clinical use/uses:
1. In combination with pyrimethamine and leukovorin (folic acid): alternative and effective intervention for acute encephalitis caused by Toxoplasma gondii.
2. In combination with primaquine may be used to treat "mild-to-moderate" Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia in HIV patients.
3. Both
4. Neither
Clindamycin clinical use/uses:
1. For osteomyelitis (alternative drug)
2. In combination with quinine for non-severe malaria (alternative agents)
3. Both
4. Neither
Clindamycin clinical use/uses: alternative drug in pharyngitis, sinusitis, and otitis media treatments.
1. True
2. False
Clindamycin clinical use/uses: in combination with penicillin G-
1. Treating toxic shock syndrome
2. Treating necrotizing fasciitis due to Group A Streptococcus
3. Both
4. Neither
Clindamycin is appropriate for treating infections due to Bacteroides species and other anaerobes.
1. True
2. False
Clindamycin, occasionally in combination with cephalosporin or and aminoglycoside, may be useful in treating "penetrating wounds" of the abdomen and gut.
1. True
2. False
Clindamycin clinical use: prophylaxis for endocarditis in patients with valvular disease and analogy to penicillin (patients having dental work done)
1. True
2. False
Clindamycin administration may be helpful in female genital tract infections such as in septic abortion or pelvic inflammatory disease.
1. True
2. Volves
Clindamycin: possible activity in non-resistant community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
1. True
2. False