NURS 660 EXAM 3
What is the medication that is the antidote for alprazolam? - answer flumazenil
What is the MOA of pregabalin that makes it alleviate pain for people with fibromyalgia
or chronic fatigue? - answer binds to the alpha 2 delta sub-units of voltage sensitive
calcium channels
What is an antagonist of caffeine - answer adenosine
Diagnose this pt: Patient comes in with a CC of anxiety. She has been excessively
worrying, increased arousal, increased tiredness and irritability. What is the primary and
least likely diagnosis? - answer GAD; panic disorder
Somebody w/ anxiety worries about having a panic attack, in addition has mood
changes to avoid things in order to not have a panic attack. - answerPanic disorder
A woman was raped, and continues to have fear of opposite sex on her way to parking
garage. Which two areas of the brain are involved? - answeramygdala and
hippocampus
MOA of modafinil (Provigil). How does it promote normal wakefulness -
answerhistamine, NE at alpha adrenergic receptor sites, dopamine at D2 receptors
What is the MOA of eszopiclone? What receptors does it act on? - answerBinds to
GABA receptors to increase GABA to increase sleepiness
Which would be the first line appropriate pharmacological agent for PTSD? -
answerParoxetine
What mediation is used to alleviate to help cognitive pain and physical symptoms in
fibromyalgia? - answerMilnacepran (Savella)
With the difficulty breathing is related hypothetically to the activation of what area of the
brain? - answerparabrachial nucleous
What medications are good for falling asleep "sleep induction" and are not addictive? -
answerSuvorexant (Belsmora)
Know the MOA of buspirone. Which receptor does it primarily act upon? -
answerserotonin 1a 5HT1A partial agonist
What is the medication that is the antidote for alprazolam? - answer flumazenil
What is the MOA of pregabalin that makes it alleviate pain for people with fibromyalgia
or chronic fatigue? - answer binds to the alpha 2 delta sub-units of voltage sensitive
calcium channels
What is an antagonist of caffeine - answer adenosine
Diagnose this pt: Patient comes in with a CC of anxiety. She has been excessively
worrying, increased arousal, increased tiredness and irritability. What is the primary and
least likely diagnosis? - answer GAD; panic disorder
Somebody w/ anxiety worries about having a panic attack, in addition has mood
changes to avoid things in order to not have a panic attack. - answerPanic disorder
A woman was raped, and continues to have fear of opposite sex on her way to parking
garage. Which two areas of the brain are involved? - answeramygdala and
hippocampus
MOA of modafinil (Provigil). How does it promote normal wakefulness -
answerhistamine, NE at alpha adrenergic receptor sites, dopamine at D2 receptors
What is the MOA of eszopiclone? What receptors does it act on? - answerBinds to
GABA receptors to increase GABA to increase sleepiness
Which would be the first line appropriate pharmacological agent for PTSD? -
answerParoxetine
What mediation is used to alleviate to help cognitive pain and physical symptoms in
fibromyalgia? - answerMilnacepran (Savella)
With the difficulty breathing is related hypothetically to the activation of what area of the
brain? - answerparabrachial nucleous
What medications are good for falling asleep "sleep induction" and are not addictive? -
answerSuvorexant (Belsmora)
Know the MOA of buspirone. Which receptor does it primarily act upon? -
answerserotonin 1a 5HT1A partial agonist
