Medications

Question 1

Atropine

Answer 1

Atropine Injection is given before anaesthesia to decrease mucus secretions, such as saliva. During anaesthesia and surgery, atropine is used to help keep the heart beat normal.

Atropine sulfate is also used to block or reverse the adverse effects caused by some medicines and certain type of pesticides.

Question 2

Leflunomide

Answer 2

Used as a treatment for active rheumatoid arthritis.

20mg once a day.

Is hepatotoxic and can cause liver failure. Should not be used by pregnant women.

Side effects include diarrhea, skin rash, alopecia, increased AST and ALT, bronchitis, and rhinitis.

Question 3

Lamivudine

Answer 3

An antiviral medicine that prevents human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or hepatitis B virus cells from multiplying in your body. Epivir is for treating HIV, which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

Question 4

Methergine

Answer 4

Affects the smooth muscle of a woman’s uterus improving muscle tone and the strength and timing of contractions. Also used to deliver the afterbirth.

Question 5

Sandimmune

Answer 5

Lowers the body’s immune system to prevent rejection of an implanted heart, liver or kidney.

Question 6

Imuran

Answer 6

Lowers the body’s immune system to prevent rejection of an implanted kidney.

Question 7

Ticlid

Answer 7

Ticlopidine is used to prevent platelets in your blood from sticking together and forming a blood clot after a recent heart attack or stroke, and in people who have had a stent placed in the arteries that supply blood to the heart.

Question 8

Methotrexate

Answer 8

Used to treat psoriasis, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis & ectopic pregnancy

Question 9

Butorphanol tartrate

Answer 9

An opioid analgesic that can precipitate withdrawal symptoms in an opioid-dependent client.