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Do you vote for Penicillin?. An interactive workshop on treatment of upper respiratory tract infections. What did you have for breakfast today?. Danish morgenmad Continental breakfast Full hotel breakfast Nothing. What is your occupation?. Family doctor Trainee Doctor in other specialty
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Do you vote for Penicillin? An interactive workshop on treatment of upper respiratory tract infections
What did you have for breakfast today? • Danish morgenmad • Continental breakfast • Full hotel breakfast • Nothing
What is your occupation? • Family doctor • Trainee • Doctor in other specialty • Other
Where do you work? • Denmark • Norway • Sweden • Finland • Iceland • Other country
Did you take part in Happy Audit? • Yes • No • What is Happy Audit?
Case 1 Sore throat
Case 1 • 28 year old mother with sore throat • 2 children, 2 and 6 years. Strep disease in the kindergarden • Fever and pain in throat since 3 days, no other problems from respiratory tract. • Malaise • Temp 38,6 C • Swollen tonsils with exudate • Lymfnodes swollen and painful
Case 1 – What do you do? • CRP • Quicktest for Strep A • 1+2 • Bacterial culture for Strep A • Treat w Penicillin V without investigations • Treat w Amoxicillin without investigations • No test – no treatment
Case 1.1 – her 2 year old child • CRP • Quicktest for Strep A • 1+2 • Bacterial culture for Strep A • Treat w Penicillin V without investigations • Treat w Amoxicillin without investigations • No test – no treatment
Case 1.2 • 28 year old man with sore throat • Children in the same institution as before • Slight pain in throat since 3 days, no other problems from respiratory tract • Temp 37.1 • Slight redness of tonsils. • No exsudate • No swollen and painful lymf glands • Positive quicktest Strep A
Case 1.2 – What do you do? • CRP • Bacterial culture for Strep A • Treat w Penicillin V without investigations • Treat w Amoxicillin without investigations • No treatment
Case 1 What did the participants in Happy Audit do?
Centor criteria*: Fever Tender angular glands Tonsil Coatings Absence of cough *Described by dr. Robert Centor of the University of Alabama
Centorcriteria and probability of Streptococci Patients with 0-1 Centor criteria should not be tested with Strep A
Case 2 Otitis media
Case 2 • 4 year old child, no previous ear infection • Running nose since 5 days. • Last night severe pain in one ear • Temp 38.1 C • No swollen tonsils • Small lymfnodes slightly swollen and painful
Case 2 – What do you do? • CRP • Nasopharyngeal culture • Treat w Penicillin V without investigations • Treat w Amoxicillin without investigations • Delayed prescription – just in case • No antibiotic, advice • No antibiotic, new appointment in three days
Case 3 Cough
Case 3 • 37 year old man • Smokes at parties and business meetings • No previous problems from respiratory tract, but ”always bothered by cough” and ”prolonged colds” • Troublesome coughing, esp at night. • No fever, normal breathing. • Normal lung auscultation
Case 3 – What do you do? • CRP • Chest X-ray • 1+2 • Penicillin V without further investigations • Other antibiotic without further investigations • Delayed prescription – just in case • No antibiotic, advice
AcuteBronchitis is an acuterespiratorytractinfectioncaused by virus, and should, in general, not betreatedwithantibiotics • CRP maybehelpful to distinguishbetweenacutebronchits and pneumonia
Case 4 Sinusitis
Case 4 - sinusitis • Woman, 28 years old, non-smoker, two small children • Often suffers from sinusitis and always needs antibiotic treatment to recover… • Now nasal congestion > 7 days • Pain under left eye. Worsening when she is leaning forward • Less relief from OTC nasal spray
Case 4 – What do you do? • CRP • Sinus X-ray / CT – antibiotics if +ive • Penicillin V without further investigations • Other antibiotic without further investigations • Delayed prescription – just in case • No antibiotic, adv: saline nasal wash, steam etc • Nasal steroid spray
Duration of symptoms at firstconsultation for patients withsinusitis
Case 5 Exacerbation of COPD
Case 5 • 76 years old, previous smoker • FEV1/FVC = 0.58 at last spirometry • FEV1 45% of expected • Has inhaled anticholinergic, beta2 and steroid treatment. • Gets exacerbation 1-2/year often needs antibiotic treatment to recover… • Now cough and short of breath 4 days • Increased volume of white, foaming sputum • Temp 37.9
Case 5 • CRP 45 • Chest X-ray: No signs of pneumonia • PaO2 92% • Inhalation of bronchodilatator in practice does not relief patients symptoms