AIT PHARM FINAL Exam 2019

KHAN’S PHARM FINAL

 

1. Valium: Benzodiazepine, GABA receptor agonist.

2. Pyrazinamide – TB medication. What toxicity to look for?

3. If a person receives Vasopressin for Diabetes Insipidus, what do you expect if the treatment is effective?

4. Why do we give iron with orange juice?

5. What is the use of giving a medication called Urecholine? 

6. If the medication is beyond expiration date by a couple of months when it comes from the pharmacy, what should you do?

7. Alcohol withdrawal, delirium treatments – what medication to give?

8. Why do we give pancreatic enzymes (Creon, pancreolipase) and what will it lead to in terms of fat in stools?

9. Patient is taking medication and complaining of certain nausea/vomiting, what is the priority?

10. What are the adverse effects of symptoms of Digoxin toxicity?

11. When will you give Carafate? Before, with, or after meals?

12. Person is on Coumadin, what will you monitor?

13. Clarithromycin –

14. What vitamin do you expect to be reduced in alcohol abuse?

15. What natural supplements/juices to avoid when taking statins?

16. What are the guidelines for controlled substances, what should you do?

17. What are the side effects of Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide)?

18. Methotrexate – what education should you give to patient?

19. Singulair (montelukast) – how often do you take it, when do you take it, take with asthma attack or not?

20. If you want to measure peak and trough levels of Gentamicin, when will you collect the blood?

21. Which of the following medications will have side effects of orthostatic hypertension? Psych meds, BP meds, diuretics (Know names of meds)

22. Hold medication if BP is

23.  Aluminum hydroxide (amphojel) – antacid –

24. Xanax – adverse effects:

25. Prozac (fluoxetine) - when to give it?.

How should I take PROZAC?

 

26. A patient receiving blood transfusion suddenly developed facial flushing, lower back pain =

27. Coumadin and ginger interaction = Ginger supplements, containing amounts of ginger much greater than regularly found in food products, may lead to an

28. Before you give meds, if BP is low,

29. Captopril =

30. ifex (IFOSFAMIDE)  –

31. When giving erythropoietin, what should you monitor?

32. Levothyroxine, if inadequate, can cause change in TSH, for thyroid disorder.. increase or decrease? 

33. Spironolactone (aldactone)

34. If you forgot to take an oral contraceptive pill, what should you do?

35. When taking MAOIs,

36. Patient has DVT, order of IV heparin and Coumadin. Patient wants to know why he has 2 medications?

37. Dosage cal…. Desire over have. gtt/min

38. Cipro -

39. If a patient is taking Demerol, what are you monitoring?

40. Why do we mix beta blocker with HCTZ?

41. Should you be concerned if the patient stops taking meds once the seizure stops?

42. Tamoxifen

43. Beta Blocker: Not for Asthma

Can beta-blockers cause Asthma to get severe?

-Used to treat HTN

-Ends in –“lol”

            Carvedilol (Coreg)

44. Expectorants: Stimulates secretion (cough med)

How do expectorant bring out fluids?

45. Study Tardive Dyskinesia-Schizophrenia: Antipsychotic-Chlorpromazine

46. All the signs and symptoms of fluid volume excess and deficit

47. How does Reglan work?

48. If benadryl causes drowsiness, when is the best time to take it?

49. If the doctor wants to repair the retina, they want to use mydriatic (dilates pupils). If I give you a bunch of meds, you need to know which is a mydriatic.

50. One dose of nitro for chest pain, but pain does not go away. What do you do?

 

51. Vancomycin IV- What are you careful for?

52. Patient is taking a lot of calcium supplements and they are having flank pain? What do you suppose they might have?  

53. Pt is taking albuterol, how long do you hold your breath?

54. If you see any drug with the letter CUR in them, what does it mean?

55. Lithium Toxicity symptoms

56.Patient wants to take herbal supplements, what do you do? -

57. Antidote for heparin? -

58. Life threatening S/E Zidovudine (AZT) antiviral drug.

59. Adverse effects of PTU (propylthiouracil)

60. Pt has anaphylactic reaction to penicillin IV, what should you do? -

61. Administer med, but pt complains that the pill does not look like the usual pill, what should you do?

62. Clozapine: What symptoms do antipsychotics remove fast, positive or negative?

-Positives: hallucinations

-Negatives: withdrawals

63. Would you be worried if patient is taking a lot of Vicodin and Tylenol?

64. Antidote for Coumadin -

65. Proper way to break an ampule? 

66. If a psych patient is holding the medication in the mouth and acting like he/she is eating it, but they are not, what other form do you administer so they don’t hold it? 

67.  If you are giving gentamycin, what is most important to monitor?  

68. Which has more potassium? List.

He will give us diuretics and we will choose which has more potassium. 

69. Colace-how does it work? 

70. All adverse effects of alendronate (Fosamax): 

71. If someone has severe nausea and vomiting, they will be in

72. Glipizide mechanism of action is?

73. Isosorbide is a

74. Dilantin + alcohol (interaction). 

75. If you crush aspirin and you take it; you will get a 

76. What is the position for a suppository?

77. Disulfiram (antabuse).

 

78. If patient is taking nitroglycerin and has a headache, 

79. Why do we taper prednisone?.

80. If you are taking any inhaler with a bronchodilator, 

81. For antabuse,

82.  Someone has digoxin toxicity, what is the antidote? 

83. For a patient taking valium, 

84. Patient has dry mouth with Benadryl, what should they do?.

85. Why would we give lactulose to a person with cirrhosis?

86. If someone has glaucoma and you are administering Timolol -

87. Side effects of erythromycin –

88. If you give too much levothyroxine –

89. Prostate cancer medication –

90. Digoxin toxicity symptoms –

91. If person is taking NSAIDs and has taken Tagamet orTums –

92. Best time to take NSAIDs –

93. If you open a vial of insulin would you keep it in refrigerator or room temperature? –

94. Heparin IV bolus calculation question – simple

95. Someone has a hip fracture what prophylaxis would you want to do?

96. Side effect/ adverse effect of Bumex –

97. Flexeril – what for?

98. If patient asks why you’re looking at INR and not PT?

99. If beginning chemotherapy do you tell the patient that side effects are expected?

100. If you are applying ophthalmic ointment to eye what is the right way of applying it?

101. If Heart Rate is lower than 60 -

102. Does Heparin dissolves clot?

103. If you are taking allopurinol what disease do you have?

104. Calcium carbonate antacid, how should you take it?

105. hydroxychloroquine – what to worry about?

106. When you are doing Z-track –