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Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the Bromocriptine
treatment of Parkinson's Disease
What medication may cause serious or possibly life- Ambien
threatening sleep behaviors, such as sleep driving?
Taking too much of this type of drug can make you Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
"blind as a bat" or "mad as a hatter"
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion Pharmacokinetics
Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high Lithium
risk for toxicity, therefore levels should be monitored
frequently
The drug class that carries an increased risk of SSRIs/SNRIs
suicidality in children, adolescents, and young adults
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning Atropine
This drug class double the rate of mortality in older Antipsychotics
adults with dementia
In infants, this is not fully developed and therefore Blood Brain Barrier
infants are more sensitive to CNS drugs
Time of development that fetus is at highest risk of First trimester
teratogenicity from a drug
Do not stop this class of drug abruptly due to an Beta-blockers
increased risk of cardiovascular events
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, Terms in this set (149)
Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the Bromocriptine
treatment of Parkinson's Disease
What medication may cause serious or possibly life- Ambien
threatening sleep behaviors, such as sleep driving?
Taking too much of this type of drug can make you Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
"blind as a bat" or "mad as a hatter"
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion Pharmacokinetics
Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high Lithium
risk for toxicity, therefore levels should be monitored
frequently
The drug class that carries an increased risk of SSRIs/SNRIs
suicidality in children, adolescents, and young adults
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning Atropine
This drug class double the rate of mortality in older Antipsychotics
adults with dementia
In infants, this is not fully developed and therefore Blood Brain Barrier
infants are more sensitive to CNS drugs
Time of development that fetus is at highest risk of First trimester
teratogenicity from a drug
Do not stop this class of drug abruptly due to an Beta-blockers
increased risk of cardiovascular events
