PHARM CMS STUDY GUIDE Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What is the Opioid Toxicity Triad? - Correct Answer ✅Coma,
respiratory depression, and pinpoint pupils.
What drug is used to reverse opioid toxicity? - Correct
Answer ✅Naloxone.
When do you administer the varicella vaccine? - Correct
Answer ✅1 dose: 12-15 months and 4-6 years
OR: 2 doses, 4 weeks apart if older than 13 years old.
What are contraindications to the varicella vaccine? - Correct
Answer ✅Anaphylactic reaction to gelatin or neomycin.
CANCER.
Ranolazine
- What is it used for?
- Interactions?
- What can you take it with? - Correct Answer ✅- Used with
amlodipine for chronic stable angina.
, PHARM CMS STUDY GUIDE Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
- Cannot use with digoxin and simvastatin.
- Amlodipine
STATIN DRUGS (Simvastatin, Lovastatin, Pravastatin,
Rosuvastatin, Fluvastatin, Pitavastatin, Simvastatin +
Ezetimibe)
- Complications?
- Avoid?
- What labs do you monitor? (6 levels/tests) - Correct
Answer ✅- All statins are used to LOWER LDL cholesterol.
- Complications: hepatotoxicity (evidenced by increased AST),
myopathy (CK level).
- Avoid grapefruit juice.
- Baseline cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglyceride levels, liver
function tests, and kidney function tests.
MYCIN DRUGS (Gentamicin, Tobramycin, Neomycin,
Streptomycin, Paromomycin)
- What is it used for?
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
What is the Opioid Toxicity Triad? - Correct Answer ✅Coma,
respiratory depression, and pinpoint pupils.
What drug is used to reverse opioid toxicity? - Correct
Answer ✅Naloxone.
When do you administer the varicella vaccine? - Correct
Answer ✅1 dose: 12-15 months and 4-6 years
OR: 2 doses, 4 weeks apart if older than 13 years old.
What are contraindications to the varicella vaccine? - Correct
Answer ✅Anaphylactic reaction to gelatin or neomycin.
CANCER.
Ranolazine
- What is it used for?
- Interactions?
- What can you take it with? - Correct Answer ✅- Used with
amlodipine for chronic stable angina.
, PHARM CMS STUDY GUIDE Exam
Questions and Answers (Latest Update
2025)
- Cannot use with digoxin and simvastatin.
- Amlodipine
STATIN DRUGS (Simvastatin, Lovastatin, Pravastatin,
Rosuvastatin, Fluvastatin, Pitavastatin, Simvastatin +
Ezetimibe)
- Complications?
- Avoid?
- What labs do you monitor? (6 levels/tests) - Correct
Answer ✅- All statins are used to LOWER LDL cholesterol.
- Complications: hepatotoxicity (evidenced by increased AST),
myopathy (CK level).
- Avoid grapefruit juice.
- Baseline cholesterol, HDL, LDL, triglyceride levels, liver
function tests, and kidney function tests.
MYCIN DRUGS (Gentamicin, Tobramycin, Neomycin,
Streptomycin, Paromomycin)
- What is it used for?