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