Neuro: first aid 2015 pg 495-502 Flashcards
A 42-year-old man involved in an automobile accident sustains multiple fractures of the right leg and arm and is suffering from severe pain. In the emergency department, his wife reports that her husband is a recovering heroin addict who has been enrolled in a methadone program for 3 months and is also taking phenelzine for depression. The most appropriate drug to alleviate the patient’s severe pain is
A. butorphanol. B. meperidine. C. morphine. D. nalbuphine. E. pentazocine.
A
methadone program —> withdrawal program so don’t give opioid agonist
so Butorphanol is Kagonist and u partial agonist!
butorphanol overdose–> easily reversible with naloxone?
nope
Tramadol
what is it?
and fatal side effect
tram it all work on everything
Serotonin syndrome!!
also decreases seizures threshold
Absence seizure treatment
Ethosuxmide
List Ca2+ blockers for antiseizures
EcG
Ethosuxmide
Calcium
Gabapentin
Increase in GABA
Topiramate and phenobarbital
where do you use Gabapentin other than seizures
peripheral neuropathy and postherpatic neuralgia
Migraine prophylaxis?
BACT
Topiramate!
drug that cause stevens-johnson syndrome
lamotrigine
antiepileptic causing SIADH
carbamazepine
bipolar
- manic phase
- depressed phase
- manic: carbamezepine
2. lamotrigine
status epilepticus DOC
phenytoin
tonic-clonic DOC
valporic
p450 inducer
carbamazepine
patient with tonic clonic and absence seizures
valporic
gingival hyperplasia
phenytoin