HESI LPN · HESI LPN Pharmacology · LPN Drugs and the Peripheral Nervous System
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Which one of the following drugs, when used chronically, is associated with the development of bone pain and mineralization defects such as osteomalacia?
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Correct Answer: Etidronate
A patient with a recent drug poisoning is transported to the emergency department. The physician orders (correctly, in this case) administration of pralidoxime as part of the comprehensive emergency treatment plan. Which one of the following best describes who the patient was?
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Correct Answer: A farm/field worker accidentally doused with insecticide from an overflying cropduster plane
The fall in blood pressure caused by d-tubocurarine is due to
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Correct Answer: All of the above
Increased heart rate and dilated pupils are associated with the activation of the:
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Correct Answer: Sympathetic nervous system
A morbidly obese person visits the local bariatric (weight loss) clinic king a pill that will help shed weight. The physician prescribes dextroamphetamine. In addition to causing its expected centrally mediated anorexigenic (appetite-suppressant) effects it causes a host of peripheral adrenergic effects that, for some patients, can prove fatal. The main mechanism by which dextroamphetamine or amphetamines in general, cause their peripheral autonomic effects is
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Correct Answer: Displaces, releases, intraneuronal NE
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