CARN CORE MAIN EXAMINATION SET QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔DSM V - ✔✔Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Mild 2-3
Moderate 4-5
Severe at least 6
✔✔audit - ✔✔ID at risk of alcohol issues
Low 0-7
Moderate 8-15
High 16-19
✔✔CAGE - ✔✔cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener
Negative <2
Positive >2
✔✔alcohol abuse disorder - ✔✔Primary chronic disease
✔✔Effects of alcohol on the body - ✔✔peripheral neuropathy
myopathy
wernickes encephalopathy
, korsakoffs psychosis
cardiomyopathy
esophagitis
gastritis
pancreatitis
alcoholic hepatitis
cirrhosis of liver
leukopenia
thrombocytopenia
sexual dysfunction
✔✔Neurotransmitters effected by alcohol - ✔✔GABA is down regulated
Glutamate is Upregulated
✔✔Benzodiazepines - ✔✔First line treatment to prevent severe withdrawals
Treats psychomotor agitation with alcohol withdrawal
✔✔Diazepam - ✔✔Benzo with fastest onset
✔✔Lorazapam - ✔✔Benzo used for pt with liver issues because it does not metabolize
in liver
✔✔Side effects of Benzos - ✔✔Confusion
Drowsiness
Resp depression
✔✔What to monitor with Benzos - ✔✔Liver function
Resp rate
✔✔What to monitor with IV lorazapam - ✔✔BUN/Creat and osmol gap
✔✔Propofol side effect - ✔✔Resp depression, hypotension, pancreatitis
may need to be on vent
✔✔Thiamine deficiency - ✔✔Wernicke's encephalopathy
Korakoff syndrome
✔✔What happens is you give glucose before thiamaine - ✔✔Wernicke's
encephalopathy
✔✔poor nutrition due to alcohol use - ✔✔replacement- thiamine, calcium, potassium,
phosphorus
Multivitamins
electrolyte replacement
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔DSM V - ✔✔Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
Mild 2-3
Moderate 4-5
Severe at least 6
✔✔audit - ✔✔ID at risk of alcohol issues
Low 0-7
Moderate 8-15
High 16-19
✔✔CAGE - ✔✔cut down, annoyed, guilty, eye opener
Negative <2
Positive >2
✔✔alcohol abuse disorder - ✔✔Primary chronic disease
✔✔Effects of alcohol on the body - ✔✔peripheral neuropathy
myopathy
wernickes encephalopathy
, korsakoffs psychosis
cardiomyopathy
esophagitis
gastritis
pancreatitis
alcoholic hepatitis
cirrhosis of liver
leukopenia
thrombocytopenia
sexual dysfunction
✔✔Neurotransmitters effected by alcohol - ✔✔GABA is down regulated
Glutamate is Upregulated
✔✔Benzodiazepines - ✔✔First line treatment to prevent severe withdrawals
Treats psychomotor agitation with alcohol withdrawal
✔✔Diazepam - ✔✔Benzo with fastest onset
✔✔Lorazapam - ✔✔Benzo used for pt with liver issues because it does not metabolize
in liver
✔✔Side effects of Benzos - ✔✔Confusion
Drowsiness
Resp depression
✔✔What to monitor with Benzos - ✔✔Liver function
Resp rate
✔✔What to monitor with IV lorazapam - ✔✔BUN/Creat and osmol gap
✔✔Propofol side effect - ✔✔Resp depression, hypotension, pancreatitis
may need to be on vent
✔✔Thiamine deficiency - ✔✔Wernicke's encephalopathy
Korakoff syndrome
✔✔What happens is you give glucose before thiamaine - ✔✔Wernicke's
encephalopathy
✔✔poor nutrition due to alcohol use - ✔✔replacement- thiamine, calcium, potassium,
phosphorus
Multivitamins
electrolyte replacement
