title: Staph Aureus tags: #FFICM notebook: 🌑-FFICM type: inprogress
source: mcqs-and-sbas-in-intensive-care-medicine-oxford-higher-special-training
PVL Staph Aureus
| Flashcard | type:basic |
|---|---|
| What does PVL Staph Aureus stand for? | Panton-Valentine Secreting Staph Aureus |
| In the context of PVL Staph Aureus, what is PVL for? | A cytotoxin that bursts neutrophils and macrophages |
| Is PVL Staph Aureus an MRSA thing or an MSSA thing? | It's both |
| What type of pneumonia can PVL Staph Aureus cause? | A necrotising pneumonia |
| What's the really really nasty type of staph infection in terms of sepsis and respiratory failure? | PVL Staph Aureus |
| How high is mortality from a PVL Staph Aureus pneumonia? | Around 50% |
| What adjuncts to antibiotics should you consider when trying to treat a PVL Staph Aureus pnuemonia? | IVIG |
| If you have a really really sick patient in terms of resp failure and sepsis, and you know that there's a staph, what should you be thinking of in terms of causative organism? | PVL secreting Staph Aureus |