NURS 660 EXAM 3
1.What is the medication that is the antidote for alprazolam?: flumazenil
2.What is the MOA of pregabalin that makes it alleviate pain for people
with fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue?: binds to the alpha 2 delta sub-
units of voltage sensitive calcium channels
3.What is an antagonist of caffeine: adenosine
4.Diagnose this pt: Patient comes in with a CC of anxiety. She has been excessively worrying, increased arousal, increased tiredness and irritability. What is the primary and least likely diagnosis?: GAD; Panic Disorder
5.Somebody w/ anxiety worries about having a panic attack, in addition has mood changes to avoid things in order to not have a panic attack.: Panic disorder .A woman was raped, and continues to have fear of opposite sex on her way to parking garage. Which two areas of the brain are involved?: amygdala and hippocampus
7.MOA of modafinil (Provigil). How does it promote normal wakefulness: his- tamine, NE at alpha adrenergic receptor sites, dopamine at D2 receptors
8.What is the MOA of eszopiclone? What receptors does it act on?: Binds to GABA receptors to increase GABA to increase sleepiness
9.Which would be the first line appropriate pharmacological agent for PTSD?: Paroxetine
10.What mediation is used to alleviate to help cognitive pain and physical symptoms in fibromyalgia?: Milnacepran (Savella)
11.With the difficulty breathing is related hypothetically to the activation of what area of the brain?: parabrachial nucleous
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