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NUR 635 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST 2024 VERIFIED AND GRADED A+ GRANG CANYON UNIVERSITY
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NUR 635 ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY GCUNUR 635 MIDTERM EXAM LATEST 2024
VERIFIED AND GRADED A+ GRANG CANYON
UNIVERSITY
What medication may cause serious or possibly life-threatening sleep behaviors, such as sleep
driving?
Ambien
Taking too much of this type of drug can make you "blind as a bat" or "mad as a hatter"
Anticholinergics, antimuscarinics
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, excretion
Pharmacokinetics
Drugs used to relieve a myasthenic crisis
Neostigmine, pyridostigmine
Often prescribed with levodopa/carbidopa in the treatment of Parkinson's Disease
Bromocriptine
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This drug has a very narrow therapeutic index and high risk for toxicity, therefore levels should
be monitored frequently
Lithium
The drug class that carries an increased risk of suicidality in children, adolescents, and young
adults
SSRIs/SNRIs
The antidote for organophosphate poisoning
Atropine
This drug class double the rate of mortality in older adults with dementia
Antipsychotics
In infants, this is not fully developed and therefore infants are more sensitive to CNS drugs
Blood Brain Barrier
Time of development that fetus is at highest risk of teratogenicity from a drug
First trimester
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Do not stop this class of drug abruptly due to an increased risk of cardiovascular events
Beta-blockers
Agents that indirectly block the breakdown of acetylcholine and are often used in treatment of
Alzheimer's Disease
Cholinesterase inhibitors
Adverse drug reaction that causes difficulty speaking and chewing and worm-like movements of
the tongue
Tardive Dyskinesia
Receptor found in the lungs that causes bronchodilation when activated
Beta 2 Receptors
This drug has led to the death of children in ultrarapid metabolizers as 10% of the drug is
converted to morphine
Codeine
Leading cause of acute liver failure in the U.S.
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