5/15/13

Question 1

What is the tx for rheumatic fever after the pharyngitis is over?

Answer 1

continuous antibiotic prophylaxis w/ IM benzathine penicillin G

Question 2

What are 3 drugs that may be used in the treatment of neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Answer 2

dantrolene, amantadine, and bromocriptine

Question 3

Why is dantrolene used for neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Answer 3

muscle relaxant

Question 4

Why is amantadine used for neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Answer 4

dopamine reuptake inhibitor (it is also an NMDA receptor anatagonist)

Question 5

Why is bromocriptine used for neuroleptic malignant syndrome?

Answer 5

dopamine receptor agonist

Question 6

What sort of drugs are useful in the treatment of extrapyramidal Sx induced by antipsychotic drugs?

Answer 6

anti-cholinergics (e.g. benztropine)

Question 7

What is naloxone used for?

Answer 7

opioid overdose

Question 8

Older men who have been exposed to chemicals such as vinyl chloride, arsenic, and thorium dioxide are at greater risk for what kind of hepatic malignancy?

Answer 8

hepatic angiosarcoma

Question 9

What is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in pts following subarachnoid hemorrhage?

Answer 9

vasospasm w/ ischemia and infarction

Question 10

What drugs are used to prevent vasospasm in pts following subarachnoid hemorrhage?

Answer 10

Ca++ channel blockers, e.g. nimodipine

Question 11

A nail puncture wound in an adult resulting in osteomyelitis is most likely due to what organism? (Clue: not S. aureus.)

Answer 11

Psuedomonas aeruginsa

Question 12

Whta kind of hepatitis is treated with prednisone?

Answer 12

severe alcoholic

Question 13

What is the drug Lamuvidine used for?

Answer 13

HIV and chronic HBV