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✔✔What is the half life of ketamine? - ✔✔2.5 hours
✔✔Casualties given a single high dose of ketamine will have approximately how many
minutes of dissociation? - ✔✔30 mins
✔✔What is the nasal spray dose of ketamine? - ✔✔10mg
✔✔What is the low dose of ketamine and when can you repeat? - ✔✔30mg and every
20 min
✔✔What are the cons to ketamine? - ✔✔<3 of age or hx of schizophrenia
✔✔What's the recommended dose for narcan to effectively manage a morphine OD? -
✔✔10-20mg
✔✔What does antipyretic mean? - ✔✔reduces fever
✔✔What does an analgesic drug do? - ✔✔relieves pain
✔✔What does anti inflammatory drugs do? - ✔✔Reduce swelling
✔✔ASA is not indicted for who? - ✔✔Military members in combat
✔✔What are the two NSAIDS used in the combat military? - ✔✔Ibuprofen, Naproxen
✔✔What are the 3 side effects of NSAIDS - ✔✔Gastric irritation, lack of appetite,
prolonged clotting time.
✔✔What are the four signs of OD/toxicity for NSAIDS - ✔✔High pitch tinnitus,
hyperthermia, behavioral effects, resp stimulation
✔✔Do not give ASA to who? - ✔✔Children
✔✔ASA may cause sensitivity and caused what type of symptoms to worsen? -
✔✔Asthma
✔✔NSAIDS may cause what? - ✔✔Acute renal failure
✔✔What is a trade name? - ✔✔The name a pharmaceutical company gives to a drug.
, ✔✔A trade name is also known as? - ✔✔brand name
✔✔What is MOA? - ✔✔Certain responses expected in the body can also be described
as a predictable chemical reaction.
✔✔What is psychological dependence? - ✔✔Pt is convinced they need the drug
✔✔What is physiological dependence? - ✔✔The body developed a physical need for
the drug
✔✔How many times do you verify the medication and when is that? - ✔✔3 times
removing the medication, prepping the med and putting it back to storage.
✔✔Before you administer a drug document what 3 things? - ✔✔V/S, pain levels, all S/S
✔✔When administrating any drug document what 5 things - ✔✔Name of med, time,
reason given, location, follow up
✔✔If a pt refuses a drug offer again in how many mins? - ✔✔5 mins
✔✔What are the 4 enteral routes - ✔✔PO, Tubal, Suppository, Enema
✔✔What is a suspension? - ✔✔One or more drugs finely divided into a liquid such as
water.
✔✔What is an Elixirs? - ✔✔Alcohol solution that is sweet and aromatic
✔✔What is percutaneous route? - ✔✔Through the skin or mucus membrane
✔✔What is an ointment? - ✔✔An oil-based greasy semisolid medication
✔✔What is a cream? - ✔✔Semisolid, non-greasy emulsions
✔✔What are the 5 parental routes? - ✔✔IM, SQ, ID, IV, Transmucosal
✔✔What are the two transmucosal routes - ✔✔Sublingual, buccal
✔✔To give a medication IV push must be done with orders from who? - ✔✔MO
✔✔What is the median cubital vein? - ✔✔Primary antecubital venipuncture spot
✔✔What is the cephaliac vein - ✔✔Second venipuncture spot