AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔giving antacids or sucralfate with the quinolones helps to reduce adverse effects.
True or false. - ✔✔false, it actually reduces efficacy due to binding
✔✔those with myasthenia gravis can take quinolone. True or false? - ✔✔false.
✔✔travelers diarrhea - ✔✔ciprofloxacin 500 mg BID x 3
✔✔cutaneous anthrax - ✔✔ciprofloxacin 500 mg BID 7 to 10 days
✔✔Bioterrorism related inhalation - ✔✔cipro 500 mg BID x 60 days
✔✔first line for pseudomonas pneumonia - ✔✔ciprofloxacin.
✔✔per the CDC, stop using cipro to treat what - ✔✔gonorrheal infection
✔✔sulfonamides are active against - ✔✔gram negative
✔✔sulfa type drugs include - ✔✔Cox-2, bactrim, furosemide, HCTZ, dapsone,
glyburide, glipizide.
✔✔Those with G6Pd would not take what antibiotic - ✔✔sulfonamides
✔✔Contraindications for sulfonamides - ✔✔3rd trimester pregnancy, G6PD, sulfa
allergy
✔✔Patients with a UTI on coumadin should not be treated with what antibiotic -
✔✔Bactrim, due to risk of bleeding
✔✔The typical male presenting with G6PD presents with jaundice and was treated with
what - ✔✔a sulfa drug. like Bactrim, a cox 2, HCTZ
✔✔dextromethorphan is contraindicated within how many days of MAOI - ✔✔14
✔✔what is given for PCP in HIV patients - ✔✔Bactrim
✔✔a topical sulfa drug for burns - ✔✔sulfadiazine
✔✔first line NSAID for those at high risk for GI bleed - ✔✔Cox 2
✔✔Aspirin irreversibly supresses platelet function for - ✔✔7 days
, ✔✔patient with tinnitus taking aspirin - ✔✔discontinue
✔✔No need to taper prednisone if - ✔✔patient is not on chronic steroids
✔✔Superpotent - class 1 - ✔✔clobetasol, temovate
✔✔potent - ✔✔halocinomide, halog
✔✔moderate - ✔✔triamcinolone, kenalog
✔✔least potent - ✔✔hydrocortisone
✔✔topical steroid occlusion - ✔✔for severe psoriatic plaques. apply super potent agent
like clobetasol and cover in plastic. should not be used greater than 2 weeks. HPAA
axis dysfunction
✔✔septic joint - ✔✔do not inject steroids
✔✔digoxin eye issue - ✔✔halo, blurred, yellow to green. needs eye exam
✔✔ethambutal and linezolid eye issue - ✔✔optic neuropathy, needs eye exam
✔✔corticosteroid eye issue - ✔✔cataract, glaucoma, optic neuritis. needs eye exam
✔✔quinolone eye issue - ✔✔retinal detachment.
✔✔viagra, cialis, levitra eye issue - ✔✔ischemic neuropathy, blurred vision, cataracts
✔✔accutane eye issue - ✔✔decreased night vision, cataract
✔✔topamax eye issue - ✔✔acute angle-closure glaucoma, increased ICP, mydriasis
✔✔plaquenil eye issue - ✔✔neuropathy and permanent vision loss
✔✔cisapride black box - ✔✔serious arrhythmia. v fib and tack. QT prolongation. twisting
of points. need baseline EKG and serum electrolyte and creatinine
✔✔theophylline level - ✔✔5-15
✔✔sign of theophylline toxicity - ✔✔persistent vomiting
✔✔Schedule 2 drugs - ✔✔demerol, dilaudid, oxycontin, amphetamine, cocaine