Block 1 drug list

Question 1

Atropine

Answer 1

Antimuscarinic agent.

Used for asystole, bradycardia and cardiac arrest.

Question 2

Betamethasone

Answer 2

Glucocorticoid receptor agonist.

Anti-inflammatory, immunosuppressive and anti-mitogenic.

Question 3

Digoxin

Answer 3

Cardiac glycoside.

Treat congestive heart failure and supraventricular arrhythmias.

Question 4

Edrophonium

Answer 4

Cholinesterase inhibitor.

Cardiac arrhythmias and in the tensilon test.

Question 5

Pyridostigmine

Answer 5

Cholinesterase inhibitor.

Question 6

Ethanol

Answer 6

Alcohol.

Question 7

Ethinylestradiol

Answer 7

Synthetic derivative of the natural oestrogen estradiol.

Used in combined oral contraceptive pill.

Question 8

Ketaconazole

Answer 8

Broad spectrum anti-fungal agent.

Question 9

Morphine

Answer 9

Analgesic.

Question 10

Paracetamol

Answer 10

Analgesic and antipyretic effects.

Question 11

Naloxone

Answer 11

Opiate antagonist.

Prevents or reverses the effects of opioids.

Question 12

Rifampicin

Answer 12

Bactericidal antibiotic.

Used with tuberculosis

Question 13

Suxamethonium

Answer 13

Depolarising skeletal muscle relaxant.

Relaxes skeletal muscle.

Question 14

Tamoxifen

Answer 14

Selective oestrogen receptor modulator.

Question 15

Tubocurarine

Answer 15

Neuromuscular blocker.

Superseded by suxamethonium