Pathology EMQ template

 

YourName: Shafak Toufeeq

YourIdentifier:

Theme: Antimicrobials

 

OPTION LIST

 

A	Amoxycillin	I	Trimethoprim
B	Ceftriaxone	J	Vancomycin
C	Chloramphenicol	K
D	Doxycyclin	L
E	Gentamicin	M
F	Imipenem	N
G	Linezolid	O
H	Rifampicin	P

 

For each of the adverse effects reported below, choose the antimicrobial most likely to have been prescribed from the list above. Each option may be used once, more than once or not at all.

 

1. Weeks after finishing a course of this drug, a patient develops sudden severe pancytopenia. Unfortunately he dies a few months later

 

 

2.  Patients, after months on this drug, may start to develop thrombocytopenia

 

 

3. A weeks after beginning a course of antibiotics, a patient develops rapidly worsening hearing loss

 

 

4. A distraught patient tells you this drug causes them to urinate blood shortly after taking it

 

 

5. A patient complains of developing a rash and severe itching, especially on sunny days

 

 

ANSWERS

1. C

2.G

3. E

4. H

5. D