Surgical Infections — MCQs

Apart from Escherichia coli, what is the other most common organism implicated in acute suppurative bacterial peritonitis?

The intense pain associated with a felon occurs because of?

A 48-year-old man with a history of diabetes presents with a poorly healing right foot ulcer that has been present for 1 month and untreated. He denies fever or chills and reports mild pain at the ulcer site. His vital signs are: temperature 37.6 C (99.6 F), blood pressure 158/86 mm Hg, pulse 94/min, and respirations 18/min. The patient has diminished popliteal, posterior tibial, and dorsalis pedis pulses bilaterally, more pronounced on the right. He has soft tissue swelling around the first toe with a 1 x 1 cm ulcer at the tip of the toe, surrounded by erythema and purulent discharge. An x-ray film of the foot shows soft tissue swelling and signs of early bone destruction in the first metatarsal. What is the most likely cause of the bone destruction evidenced on the x-ray film?

Which is the commonest post-splenectomy infection?

A 50-year-old male patient presented with severe excruciating pain in the shoulder region along with swelling and fever. There was no history of any kind of trauma. Bullae filled with clear, cloudy, hemorrhagic, or purplish fluid were observed at the site of pain, and the surrounding skin had a purple hue. A pleomorphic bacillus forming oval subterminal spores was observed on Gram staining. It grew in anaerobic conditions on culture. The colonies were initially irregular and transparent, which turned opaque on repeated incubations. The organism was saccharolytic and produced abundant gas on further studies. Which investigation should be carried out next to rule out the root cause of the above condition?

Which of the following statements about sepsis and septic shock is TRUE?

Universal (standard) precautions to be observed by surgeons for the prevention of hospital-acquired HIV infection include the following except?

Cellulitis is most commonly caused by:

Which of the following are characteristic features of early sepsis?

What is the most common organism to cause otitis media with effusion (OME) and otitis media with effusion (OME)?