Medical OSCES

Medical OSCES for medical students and PG Doctors

Menu
  • Home
  • Static Page
  • Radiology Cases
    • Neurology
    • Peadiactric
    • Chest
    • GIT
    • GUT
  • Radiology Notes
    • Neurology
    • Peadiactric
    • Chest
    • GIT
    • GUT
  • Lectures
    • Radiology
    • Anatomy
    • Physics
    • Radiography
  • Videos
  • Books
  • Surprise Me
Dermatology Ophthalmology Clinical criteria for toxic shock syndrome

Clinical criteria for toxic shock syndrome

Toxic Shock Syndrome

Clinical criteria for toxic shock syndrome include all of the following except:
a. Fever
b. Positive blood cultures
c. Hypotension
d. Involvement of 3 or more organ systems
e. Erythroderma


Toxic Shock Syndrome

Answer: b
• Acute life-threatening illness caused by production of staphylococcal exotoxin (toxic shock syndrome toxin-1, TSST-1)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria: 6 required for confirmation; 5 of 6 indicate a probable case

image

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Associations: menstruation with prolonged use of tampons, surgery (even if wound is not worrisome), barrier contraceptives
• With early and aggressive management and judicious use of antibiotics and supportive care, the mortality rate for toxic shock syndrome has been estimated at 3%. The use of corticosteroids (to lessen the overwhelming inflammatory response) and immunoglobulins remains controversial


Add Comment
Dermatology, Ophthalmology
  • Tweet
  • Share
  • Share
  • Share
  • Share

Related Posts

Post a Comment

Total Tayangan Laman

  • …

  • …

Weekly Posts

  • A 23-year-old man after  motor vehicle accident
    A 23-year-old man after motor vehicle accident
    This 23-year-old man was involved in a motor vehicle accident. What is the diagnosis? Aortic dissection Cardiac rupture Diaphragmatic rup...
  • Name the arrowed structure ?
    Name the arrowed structure ?
    Left Ventricle
  • After a short period of fever and malaise,patient develops pain in a dermatome,followed by appearance of lesion in the same dermatome,
    After a short period of fever and malaise,patient develops pain in a dermatome,followed by appearance of lesion in the same dermatome,
      1.What’s the lesion? 2.What’s the causative agent ? 3.What are the complications of this condition? 4.How would you treat?
  • Diffuse Axonal Injury
    Diffuse Axonal Injury
    Findings: Diffuse brain swelling Focal punctate hemorrhage scattered in the white matter, corpus callosum, and brain stem Right subgaleal...

Label

  • Cardiology (12)
  • Chest x-ray (9)
  • CT Scans (6)
  • Dermatology (56)
  • ECG (2)
  • Endocrinology (10)
  • ENT (2)
  • Gastroenterology (15)
  • Genetics (6)
  • Gyn and Obs (5)
  • gynaecology (4)
  • Haematology (17)
  • Image Challenge (214)
  • Immunology (3)
  • infectious and parasitic disease (3)
  • Infectious disease (5)
  • Instruments (1)
  • Microbiology (2)
  • Musculoskeletal (3)
  • NEJ Cases (9)
  • Nephrology (2)
  • Neurology (15)
  • oncology (3)
  • Ophthalmology (13)
  • Orthopaedic (8)
  • Parasitology (4)
  • Peadiactrics (12)
  • Pediatric EMCQ (1)
  • Pediatric EMCQs (5)
  • Pharmacology (4)
  • Pulmonology (9)
  • Radiology (30)
  • Real Cases (5)
  • Rheumatology (7)
  • Skull X-ray (2)
  • Surgery (4)
  • Vascular surgery (1)
  • x-ray (6)

Contact

Name

Email *

Message *

Copyright © 2014 Medical OSCES All Right Reserved
Blogger Templates Created by Arlina Design