Chapter 28 (3) Flashcards
Pernicious anemia is treated with:
Vitamin B12
Premature infants require iron supplementation with:
2 mg/kg per day until age 12 months
Breastfed infants should receive iron supplementation of:
1 mg/kg per day
Valerie presents to the clinic with menorrhagia. Her hemoglobin is 10.2 and her ferritin is 15 ng/mL. Initial treatment for her anemia would be:
325 mg ferrous sulfate tid
Chee is a 15-month-old male whose screening hemoglobin is 10.4 g/dL. Treatment for his anemia would be:
6 mg/kg per day of elemental iron
Monitoring for a patient taking iron to treat iron deficiency anemia is:
Hemoglobin, hematocrit, and ferritin 4 weeks after treatment is started
Valerie has been prescribed iron to treat her anemia. Education of patients prescribed iron would include:
Increase fluids and fiber to treat constipation.
Allie has just had her pregnancy confirmed and is asking about how to ensure a healthy baby. What is the folic acid requirement during pregnancy?
800 mcg/day
Kyle has Crohn’s disease and has a documented folate deficiency. Drug therapy for folate deficiency anemia is:
Oral folic acid 1 to 2 mg per day
Patients who are being treated for folate deficiency require monitoring of:
Hematocrit and hemoglobin at 1 week and then at 8 weeks
The treatment of vitamin B12 deficiency is:
1,000 mcg daily of oral cobalamin
The dosage of Vitamin B12 to initially treat pernicious anemia is:
Vitamin B12 1,000 mcg IM daily x 1 week then 1,000 mg IM weekly for a month
Before beginning IM vitamin B12 therapy, which laboratory values should be obtained?
All of the above
_____should be monitored when vitamin B12 therapy is started.
Serum potassium
Anemia due to chronic renal failure is treated with:
Epoetin alfa (Epogen)
