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1. A patient's nutritional intake and Distribution of drugs to target tissue may be affected
lab work reflect hypoalbumine-
mia. This is critical to prescribing
because:
2. Class IC drugs are reserved for severe ventricular tachycardia
what type of arrhythmia
3. Class III drugs are effective in ventricular fibrillation
treating
4. Half life of procainamide only short acting antiarrhythmic
5. antiarrhythmics are metabolized Liver
in the
6. To treat or not to treat antiar- Antiarrhythmic drugs are understood to be proarrhyth-
rhythmic mic, they can paradoxically correct one issue, but then
cause another lethal arrhythmia. Deciding not to treat
may be a better choice, especially in asymptomatic or
minimally symptomatic patients
7. Drugs that have a significant Are rapidly metabolized by the liver and may have little if
first-pass effect: any desired action
8. The route of excretion of a volatile The lungs
drug will be:
9. The point in time on the drug Onset of action
concentration curve that indicat-
ed the first sign of a therapeutic
effect is the:
,10. Lipid solubility of the drug
, Factors that affect gastric drug
absorption include:
11. Which one of the following state- Bio availability issues are especially important for drugs
ments about bio availability is with narrow therapeutic ranges or sustained release
true? mechanisms.
12. Steady State is: When the amount of drug in the body remains constant.
13. The time required for the amount Half-life
of drug in the body to decrease by
50% is called:
14. An advantage of prescribing a Absorbed rapidly
sublingual medication is that the
medication is:
15. Drugs that use CYP 3A4 isoen- BOTH A and B
zymes for metabolism may: Induce the metabolism of another drug
1. Induce the metabolism of an- Inhibit the metabolism of another drug
other drug
2. Inhibit the metabolism of an-
other drug
3. Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2
16. A nurse practitioner would pre- A six year old may have problems with swallowing a pill.
scribe the liquid form of ibupro-
fen for a six-year-old because: