A patient comes to the clinic to talk with the nurse about planned overseas travel. The patient tells the nurse that he or she is planning a trip to an area of the world where malaria is common
He wants to know how to prevent contracting the disease. What should the nurse respond? A) "We can ask the physician to give you some anti-infectives in case you get malaria."
B) "We can ask the physician for some anti-infectives for you to take prophylactically."
C) "Don't worry, if you get malaria they have some good doctors where you are going."
D) "If you get malaria, you can always be treated on the way home."
B
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Some anti-infectives are used as a means of prophylaxis when patients expect to be in situations that will expose them to a known pathogen, such as travel to an area where malaria is endemic, or undergoing oral or invasive gastrointestinal surgery in a person who is susceptible to subacute bacterial endocarditis. After the patient contracts malaria, it is much harder to treat so he would not start the medication or obtain treatment after being infected.
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