TEST 5

Question 1

What is the INR of warfarin?

Answer 1

2-3.5

Question 2

Drug interactions with digoxin

Answer 2

ACE, ARB, diuretics, sympathomimetics, quinidine, verapamil

Question 3

What are anticoagulants used for?

Answer 3

Used prophylactically, antithrombotic

Question 4

What are the three anticoagulants?

Answer 4

Warfarin, enoxaparin, and heparin

Question 5

Which drug do you never want to give with heparin?

Answer 5

enoxaparin

Question 6

Which foods should you avoid while using warfarin?

Answer 6

leafy green vegetables….high in vitamin K

Question 7

Vitamin K

Answer 7

antidote for bleeding with warfarin. Decreases effects of warfarin

Question 8

Which herbal products react with warfarin?

Answer 8

dong quai, garlic, ginkgo, and st johns wort

Question 9

Symptoms of hypokalemia

Answer 9

Muscle weakness, confusion, lethargy, nausea, and changes in ECG.

Question 10

Therapeutic range

Answer 10

0.5-2ng/ml

Question 11

Patient teaching for antihypertensive drugs

Answer 11

Keep BP log, monitor stress, promote exercise, adherence to medication regiment and diet restrictions

Question 12

Which antihypertensive drug works better in a patient who has had an MI?

Answer 12

Losartan (ARB)

Question 13

Thrombolytic drugs

Answer 13

Lyse EXISTING clots.

*Altepase

Question 14

Which coagulation modifier drug classes promote blood coagulation?

Answer 14

Antifibrinolytic and hemostatic