CARN AP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A.pdf

CARN AP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SET A+
withdrawal - ✔✔- intense muscle aches and pain
- piloerection
- fever
- diarrhea
- irritability
- increased lacrimation

✔✔Opioids - ✔✔- derived from opium poppy

✔✔Opioid addiction - ✔✔- morphine
- heroin
- codeine
- oxycodone
- meperidine
- fentanyl

✔✔Heroin - ✔✔- more lipid soluble than morpine
- crosses BBB more easily
- causes more intense euphoria and sedation
- quickly metabolized
- excreted in urine

✔✔Heroin overdose - ✔✔- respiratory depression
- bradycardia
- hypothermia
- death

✔✔Heroin complications - ✔✔- skin absecesses
- spetic phlebitis
- endocarditis
- HCV infection
- HIV/Aids

, - staph aureus infection

✔✔Opioid withdrawal start - ✔✔- 2 to 48 hours of last use

✔✔Abrupt withdrawal of heroin - ✔✔- causes prompt and severe withdrawal symptoms

✔✔Opioid Withdrawal symptoms - ✔✔- restlessness
- lacrimation
- rhinorrhea
- nausea
- mydriasis
- muscle aches
- diarrhea
- piloerection
- tachy
- HTN

✔✔Opioid withdrawal management - ✔✔- clonidine
- phenobarbital
- librium
- suboxone or subutex

✔✔Opioid treatment phenobarbital - ✔✔- 30 to 60mg Q6hr
- 15 to 30mg Q6hr PRN

✔✔Opioid treatment Vistaril - ✔✔- 100mg IM or PO q 3Hr PRN for N/V and anxiety for
72 hours

✔✔Opioid treatment clonidine - ✔✔- 0.1mg PO Q6hrs

✔✔Opioid treatment Levsin - ✔✔- 0.125mg SL QID x 2 days

✔✔Opioid treatment Robaxin - ✔✔- 1500mg PO TID x 2 to 5 days

✔✔Opioid treatment Flexeril - ✔✔- 10mg PO HS x 2 to 5 days

✔✔Opioid treatment Motrin - ✔✔- 600mg to 800mg PO PRN

✔✔Opioid relapse prevention - ✔✔- Naltrexone
- suboxone
- subutex
- methadone

✔✔Stimulants - ✔✔- speeds up the brain and body