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NUR635 Pharm Midterm Q&A

First line tmt for a previously healthy person who develops CAP? - ANSWER Azirthomycin If you see SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and St. John's wort together? - ANSWER Serotonin syndrome Hypersensitivity with Phenytoin? - ANSWER 3-8 weeks after treatment can occur (overly sensitive to this medication and have adverse reactions) This would look like a characteristic rash, fever, leukocytosis Carbamazepine can auto-metabolize? - ANSWER YES. This can auto-metabolize so ...

Pt on heparin in hospital setting. Why start coumadin 2 days before dc? - ANSWER Because coumadin needs a couple days before it starts working. Angina: bc pts dev tolerance to long-acting nitroglycerine w/i 1 day. How to prevent? - ANSWER Pts must have 8hrs with no nitroglycerine every days. Hint: At night, remove nitro patch bc no risk of exertional angina Underlying cause of angina - ANSWER coronary disease, athlerosclerosis Why do we give aspirin in pts w/atherosclerosis? - ANSWER A...

First line tmt for a previously healthy person who develops CAP? - ANSWER Azirthomycin If you see SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) and St. John's wort together? - ANSWER Serotonin syndrome Hypersensitivity with Phenytoin? - ANSWER 3-8 weeks after treatment can occur (overly sensitive to this medication and have adverse reactions) This would look like a characteristic rash, fever, leukocytosis Carbamazepine can auto-metabolize? - ANSWER YES. This can auto-metabolize so ...

Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease - ANSWER Bromocriptine What medication may cause serious or possibly life-threatening sleep behaviors, such as sleep driving? - ANSWER Ambien Taking too much of this type of drug can make you "blind as a bat" or "mad as a hatter" - ANSWER Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion - ANSWER Pharmacokinetics Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis - ANSWER N...

Pt on heparin in hospital setting. Why start coumadin 2 days before dc? - ANSWER Because coumadin needs a couple days before it starts working. Angina: bc pts dev tolerance to long-acting nitroglycerine w/i 1 day. How to prevent? - ANSWER Pts must have 8hrs with no nitroglycerine every days. Hint: At night, remove nitro patch bc no risk of exertional angina Underlying cause of angina - ANSWER coronary disease, athlerosclerosis Why do we give aspirin in pts w/atherosclerosis? - ANSWER A...

The process by which the body break down and coverts a medication into active subtance is know as - ANSWER metabolism The term NOT associated with the pharmacokinetics of a drug is - ANSWER Pharmacodynamics Rationale: Pharmacokinetics can be simply described as the study of 'what the body does to the drugs' and includes: the rate and extend to which drugs are absorbed and distributed to body tissue; the rate and pathways by which drugs are eliminated from the body by metabolism and excre...