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The best definition of pharmacology would be: - ANSWER ✔✔Study
of drug action and drug effects
If the potential benefits of blood pressure medications warrant their use
during pregnancy, despite known and demonstrated adverse risks to the
fetus, the drug would be designated as: - ANSWER ✔✔FDA
Pregnancy category D
Absorption of drug mostly depends on: - ANSWER ✔✔Lipid solubility
, Insecticide poisoning stimulates cholinergic (muscarinic) receptors. The
antidote for a cholinergic crisis is: - ANSWER ✔✔Atropine
The pharmacological effects of buprenorphine, used for the treatment of
morphine addiction, are due to it's action as a/an: - ANSWER
✔✔Partial opioid agonist
The use of morphine for severe pain would be contraindicated in a
patient with: - ANSWER ✔✔Status asthmaticus
Explain the reason why local anesthetics that are given by injection
occasionally contain epinephrine: - ANSWER ✔✔Epinephrine
counteracts the vasodilation that occurs with local anesthetic use
Explain the underlying principle of monoamine theory of mental
depression: - ANSWER ✔✔Decrease in levels of norepinephrine and
serotonin, referred to chemically as the monoamines, leads to
depression.
Inhibition of serotonin uptake into the presynaptic endings is the
mechanism of action for: - ANSWER ✔✔Fluoxetine
The nurse knows that this monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) prevents
the breakdown of amine neurotransmitters such as dopamine and