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
6. 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
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, 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
12.What medications are good for falling asleep "sleep
induction" and are not addictive?: Suvorexant (Belsmora)
13. Know the MOA of buspirone. Which receptor does it
primarily act upon?-
: serotonin 1a 5HT1A partial agonist
14.How does melatonin improve sleep? What receptors does it
act on? Agonist or antatonist?: Secreted by the pineal glad to
attach to receptors in the suprachiasmic nucleus to regulate the
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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
6. 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
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, 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
12.What medications are good for falling asleep "sleep
induction" and are not addictive?: Suvorexant (Belsmora)
13. Know the MOA of buspirone. Which receptor does it
primarily act upon?-
: serotonin 1a 5HT1A partial agonist
14.How does melatonin improve sleep? What receptors does it
act on? Agonist or antatonist?: Secreted by the pineal glad to
attach to receptors in the suprachiasmic nucleus to regulate the
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