FPS Quiz #1 (Julie Todd)

Your patient has a swollen knee so you order a CRP. You get the result in a ratio with no units (1:8), but when you look at UpToDate the article on interpreting CRP only interprets this test in terms of mg/dL. What does this result mean about your patient?

Ask your attending, who will then call the lab and find out

The joint is probably infected

You should repeat the CRP after starting antibiotics to see if there is a change

A "positive" CRP (1:1) correlates to 0.6-1.1 mg/dL which is minor and may not represent clinically significant inflammation

All of the above

Your patient is traveling from Texas on a road trip and she gets a cough and SOB and has some weird findings on chest CT. You order a sputum culture and this is the result: >25 WBC, <9 squamous epithelial cells, mucus present, no organisms. How "good" is this sputum sample?

Terrible, repeat it.

Not bad, wait for the culture.

Sputum cultures are never helpful

Which of the following are true about syphilis infections (select all that are true)?

A patient with early or late latent syphilis is asymptomatic

Late latent syphilis is treated with IM Penicillin once weekly for 3 weeks

Tabes dorsalis is considered early neurosyphilis.

Regarding the difference between early and late latent syphilis, late latent syphilis is when there is no evidence that the disease was acquired in the last 12 months

RPR and VDRL are treponemal tests

FPS Quiz #1 (Julie Todd)

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