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| very strong pain relievers |
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| Opioids often given with these types of drugs for pain relief |
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| NSAIDs, Antidepressants, Anticonvulsants, Corticosteroids |
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| nonopioid analgesic and antipyretic |
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| Maximum daily dose of acetominophen for average adult is? |
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| NSAID for bone, joint, and muscle pain |
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| NSAID for rheumatoid arthritis |
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| NSAID, most widely used drug in the world |
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| NSAID: antigout drug that reduces production of uric acid |
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| NSAID: antigout that reduces inflammatory response to deposits of urate crystals in joint tissue |
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| NSAID: antigout that increases excretion of uric acid in the urine |
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| can be used to reduce GI effects of NSAIDs |
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| Coumadin has increased effect (thinner blood) |
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| tinnitus and hearing loss in adults. CNS effects in children. Occurs at serum levels past 40-60 mg/dL |
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| NSAID for rheumatoid arthritis: 25% gold, oral dose |
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| NSAID for rheumatoid arthritis. 50% gold, parental dose |
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| NSAID for rheumatoid arthritis: 50% gold, weekly deep IM injection |
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| Barbiturates. CNS depressants |
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| reduced REM sleep caused by |
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| Barbiturate adverse effect |
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| MAOIs inhibit metabolism and prolong the effects of barbiturates |
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| Nonbenzo hypnotics. Used for insomnia not for anxiety |
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| May occur for a few nights after a 3-4 week regimen of CNS depressants has been discontinued. |
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| muscle relaxant- also used for malignant hyperthermia crisis |
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| person is alter and remebers it |
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| Person is out of it and doesn't remember it |
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| Person always loses consciousness |
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| 30+ minutes of continuous seizures. Is life threatening |
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| Drug of choice for status epilepticus |
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| widely used first line antiepileptic drug |
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| can occur if antiepileptic therapy is discontnued abruptly |
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| ONLY with normal saline. May precipitate with anything else |
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| Parkinson's disease - generally |
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| Body needs more dopamine and wants less ACh |
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| "Cheese effect" that causes severe hypertension |
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| Levodopa "on-off phenomenon" |
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| Swings from good to bad responses |
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| MAOI for Parkinson's. Used in combination with levodopa or levodopa-carbidopa. |
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| Dompaminergic therapy for Parkinson's. Causes release of dopamine. |
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| COMT inhibitors: inhibit enzyme resp. for the breakdown of levodopa. |
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| Last resort antiparkinson drug |
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| Anticholinergic drugs for Parkinson's |
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| If taking Levodopa, avoid: |
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| Foods high in vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) |
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| Can be caused by taking Levodopa with MAOI antidepressants |
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| non-sedating and non-habit forming antianxiety med. |
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| -azepam or -azelam (lam and pam) |
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| IV only, causes conscious sedation |
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| Lithium therapeutic range |
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| between 0.6 and 1.2 mEq/L |
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| Advantage of SSRIs over tricyclics and MAOIs: |
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| little to no effect on the cardiovascular system |
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| Very lethal! 70-80% die before getting to the hospital due to seizures or dystrhythmias. |
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| Antipsychotic with lots of side effects like neurologic malignant syndrome (NMS) |
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| Neuroleptic malignant syndrome |
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| Potentially life-threatening, consists of: high fever, unstable BP, muscle breakdown, thin blood |
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| Extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) |
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| Involuntary muscle symptoms, akathisia, acute dystonia. |
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| Cogentin and Artane (parkinson's meds) |
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| Irreversable abnormal movements of the facial muscles. |
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| wavelike wormlike movements of the extremities |
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