A health care professional is caring for a patient who is about to begin taking amphetamine sulfate (Addrall). The health care professional should monitor the patient for which of the following adverse effects?
  • chest pains
  • Jaundice
  • memory imparment
  • Tachycardia
A health care professional is talking with a patient who is to begin taking valproic acid (Depakote) to treat a seizure disorder. He should advise the patient to monitor for which of the following adverse effects?
  • Tachycardia
  • Liver function
  • Naloxone
  • Jaundice
A heath care professional is caring for a patient who is about to begin taking dantrolene (Dantrium) for skeletal muscle spasms. The health care professional should tell the patient to report which of the following adverse effects?
  • Diarrhea
  • Jaundice
  • chest pains
  • Tachycardia
Anesthetist often administer midazolam (Versed) during induction of anesthesia because of which of the following pharmacological actions?
  • Nausea
  • Hypotension
  • Muscle rigidity
  • causes amnesia
A health care professional is talking to a patient about begining sumatriptan (Imitrex) therapy to treat migrain headaches. The health care professional should advise the patient to watch for which of the following adverse effect?
  • increased focus
  • chest pains
  • Tachycardia
  • Liver function
A health care professional is careing for a patient who is about to begin taking pramipexole (Mirapex) to treat Parkinson's disease. The health care proessional should recognize that which of the following laboratory test require monitoring?
  • increased focus
  • -Rash -Drowsiness- Headache
  • Increase available dopamine in the brain
  • Creatine phosphokinase (CPK)
For which of the following should a health care professional monitor a patient who is taking donepezil (Aricept) for Alzheimer's disease?
  • causes amnesia
  • Nausea
  • Diarrhea
  • Fatigue
a health care professional should include which of the following instructions when talking with a patient about taking levodopa/ carbidopa (Sinement) to treat Parkinson's disease?
  • Increase available dopamine in the brain
  • Creatine phosphokinase (CPK)
  • Premedicate with acetaminophen (Tylenol)
  • Change position slowly to prevent orthostatic hypotension.
Which of the following findings should alert a health care professional that a pateint is deleoping a potentially serious adverse reaction to interferon beta-1b (Betaseron)
  • Fatigue
  • Jaundice
  • Nausea
  • Naloxone
A health care prtofessional is talking to a patient about the adverse effect of interferon beta-1a (Avonex). To help minimize these effects, she should tel the patient to
  • Premedicate with acetaminophen (Tylenol)
  • Respiratory deprssion
  • Change position slowly to prevent orthostatic hypotension.
  • Increase available dopamine in the brain
A health care professional is carign for a patient who is reciving thiopental (Pentothal). Which of the following shoukd the health care professional monitor?
  • Premedicate with acetaminophen (Tylenol)
  • memory imparment
  • Creatine phosphokinase (CPK)
  • Respiratory deprssion
Because of the potential for adverse effects, which of the following should a health care professional recommend for patients who begin taking carbamazepine (Tegretol)?
  • Take the drug in the morning
  • Begin taking at a low dose
  • Respiratory deprssion
  • Avoid driving until the drug's effect are evident
An anesthetist is about ti administer lidoaine (Xylocaine) as part of the protocol for spinal anesthesia for a patient who is undergoing a surgical procedure. The health care professioal should be aweare that the patient chould develop which of the following potentially serious effects?
  • Liver function
  • chest pains
  • Muscle rigidity
  • Hypotension
A health care professional is caring for a patent who is taking zolpidem (Ambien). The patient has a history of benzodiazepine abuse and reports insomnia. The health care professional should caution the patient that the drug can cause
  • Liver function
  • increased focus
  • memory imparment
  • chest pains
A health care professional administers entanyl (Sublimaze) to a patient to reduce pain. which of the following grugs should she have available to reverse the effects of fentanyl?
  • chest pains
  • Naloxone
  • Tachycardia
  • Jaundice
A health care professional is talking to a patient who is newly diagnosed with Parkinson's diease about how levodopa/carbidopa (Sinemet) will help control her symptoms. With which of the following mechanisms is the drugs effective in treating the disorder?
  • -Rash -Drowsiness- Headache
  • Creatine phosphokinase (CPK)
  • increased focus
  • Increase available dopamine in the brain
When talking with a patient about temazepam (Restoril), which of the following instructions should the helth care professional include? (SATA)
  • Avoid driving until the drug's effect are evident
  • causes amnesia
  • Take the drug in the morning
  • - Avoid alchol and other depressants - Take the drug 30 minutes before bedtime- Taper the drug slowly to prevent withdrawl symptoms
A patient is taking selegiline (Eldepryl) to treat Parkinsons disease. The provider is considering the use of analgesics for the patient but should be awear that a drug intreaction between selegiline and meperidine (Demerol) can result in which of the following?
  • Hypotension
  • Liver function
  • memory imparment
  • Muscle rigidity
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