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Drugs that must bear the legend "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription"
include the following:
a) alternative drugs
b) all analgesics
c) hypnotics and narcotics
d) all diet drugs - Answer✔c
The alternative name for Valium is diazepam. Diazepam is:
a) brand name
b) generic name
c) chemical name
d) trade name - Answer✔b
For a drug to reach its therapeutic effect more quickly, a physician might order:
a) a larger initial dose and later smaller does
b) a smaller initial dose, then a larger dose
c) a maximizing dose
d) a bolus - Answer✔d
Marjorie Merriweather takes oral morphine for chromic pain. After taking the prescribed dosage
for two weeks, she notices that it no longer seems to be controlling the pain. This reaction is
called:
a) tolerance
b) dependency
c) and adverse reaction
d) addiction - Answer✔a
Two drugs mouser never be mixed in the same syringe for administration before checking their:
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a) compatibility
b) expiration dates
c) effectiveness
d) correct dosage - Answer✔a
Drug absorption varies from person to person. the efficiency of drug absorption is largely
dependent on:
a) the type of drug
b) the absorptive surface available
c) the sex of the individual
d) the time of day - Answer✔b
Your patient suddenly develops an unusual reaction you have not seen before to a drug you
routinely give. You recognize this is a(n):
a) allergic reaction
b) drug idiosyncrasy
c) drug tolerance
d) toxic reaction - Answer✔b
The physiological effect of a contrast medium on the patient's body that may create an adverse
reaction when administered is because of:
a) its high viscosity, which prompts a sudden shift in body from the interstitial spaces and cells
into the systemic circulation
b) Its low viscosity as compared to other drugs
c) the fact that tit is isotonic
d) its shift of fluid into the interstitial spaces and cells related to its high viscosity - Answer✔a
A patient is receiving an intravenous contrast medium by bolus intravenous injection. The patient
begins to complain of nausea, itching around the eyes, feeling dizzy, and a headache. The
radiographer decides the patient is having:
a) A vasovagal reaction
b) Side effects from the injection
c) A severe adverse reaction
d) A mild adverse reaction
e) A moderate adverse reaction - Answer✔d
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Factors that may influence the effect off a drug are:
a) Age and weight
b) Age, weight, gender, time of day, medication history, and the patient's temperature
c) Gender and time of day
d) Age, weight, gender, and time of day
e) Medication history and the patient's temperature - Answer✔b
Expected side effects of contrast medium administered by intravascular route include which of
the following?
a) complaints of itching
b) metallic taste in mouth
c) feeling of warmth and flushing
d) felling of warmth and flushing and metallic taste in mouth
e) feeling of being short of breath - Answer✔d
Which of the following is not a variable that the physician considers when selecting a contrast
medium for use?
a) osmolality
b) ionic strength
c) viscosity
d) its ability to stay separate form bodily fluids
e) its persistence in the body - Answer✔d
Alternative dietary and herbal supplements are classified as food, not drugs
a) false
b) true - Answer✔b
Drugs given topically are affected by the first-pass effect
a) true
b) false - Answer✔b
Contrast media are categorized as drugs. This is because they are absorbed into the systemic
circulation and may produce a physiologic response on the body
a) true
b) false - Answer✔a
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A damaged or absent drugs surface alters the time it takes a drug to reach its intended site
a) true
b) false - Answer✔a
Drug _______ is a reliance on a drug for psychological or physiologic reasons. -
Answer✔dependence
Drug ____ os a dependence on a drug beyond voluntary control. - Answer✔addiction
The term that describes the escape of a fluid from a vessel into tissue is:
a) parenteral
b) extravasation
c) infusion
d) infiltration - Answer✔b
The first 3 months of pregnancy is considered the first ____ of pregnancy. - Answer✔trimester
hypokalemia:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
c)an abnormal decrease in the number of platelets in the circulating blood
d) extremely low number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
e) pathologic conditions of the cellular elements of the blood
f) to move out or pass through a vessel into the tissues - Answer✔a
hypothyroidism:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
c)an abnormal decrease in the number of platelets in the circulating blood
d) extremely low number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
e) pathologic conditions of the cellular elements of the blood
f) to move out or pass through a vessel into the tissues - Answer✔b
thrombocytopenia:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
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RAD 117 FINAL Exam Questions And
Answers 100% Guaranteed Pass.
Drugs that must bear the legend "Caution: federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription"
include the following:
a) alternative drugs
b) all analgesics
c) hypnotics and narcotics
d) all diet drugs - Answer✔c
The alternative name for Valium is diazepam. Diazepam is:
a) brand name
b) generic name
c) chemical name
d) trade name - Answer✔b
For a drug to reach its therapeutic effect more quickly, a physician might order:
a) a larger initial dose and later smaller does
b) a smaller initial dose, then a larger dose
c) a maximizing dose
d) a bolus - Answer✔d
Marjorie Merriweather takes oral morphine for chromic pain. After taking the prescribed dosage
for two weeks, she notices that it no longer seems to be controlling the pain. This reaction is
called:
a) tolerance
b) dependency
c) and adverse reaction
d) addiction - Answer✔a
Two drugs mouser never be mixed in the same syringe for administration before checking their:
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a) compatibility
b) expiration dates
c) effectiveness
d) correct dosage - Answer✔a
Drug absorption varies from person to person. the efficiency of drug absorption is largely
dependent on:
a) the type of drug
b) the absorptive surface available
c) the sex of the individual
d) the time of day - Answer✔b
Your patient suddenly develops an unusual reaction you have not seen before to a drug you
routinely give. You recognize this is a(n):
a) allergic reaction
b) drug idiosyncrasy
c) drug tolerance
d) toxic reaction - Answer✔b
The physiological effect of a contrast medium on the patient's body that may create an adverse
reaction when administered is because of:
a) its high viscosity, which prompts a sudden shift in body from the interstitial spaces and cells
into the systemic circulation
b) Its low viscosity as compared to other drugs
c) the fact that tit is isotonic
d) its shift of fluid into the interstitial spaces and cells related to its high viscosity - Answer✔a
A patient is receiving an intravenous contrast medium by bolus intravenous injection. The patient
begins to complain of nausea, itching around the eyes, feeling dizzy, and a headache. The
radiographer decides the patient is having:
a) A vasovagal reaction
b) Side effects from the injection
c) A severe adverse reaction
d) A mild adverse reaction
e) A moderate adverse reaction - Answer✔d
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Factors that may influence the effect off a drug are:
a) Age and weight
b) Age, weight, gender, time of day, medication history, and the patient's temperature
c) Gender and time of day
d) Age, weight, gender, and time of day
e) Medication history and the patient's temperature - Answer✔b
Expected side effects of contrast medium administered by intravascular route include which of
the following?
a) complaints of itching
b) metallic taste in mouth
c) feeling of warmth and flushing
d) felling of warmth and flushing and metallic taste in mouth
e) feeling of being short of breath - Answer✔d
Which of the following is not a variable that the physician considers when selecting a contrast
medium for use?
a) osmolality
b) ionic strength
c) viscosity
d) its ability to stay separate form bodily fluids
e) its persistence in the body - Answer✔d
Alternative dietary and herbal supplements are classified as food, not drugs
a) false
b) true - Answer✔b
Drugs given topically are affected by the first-pass effect
a) true
b) false - Answer✔b
Contrast media are categorized as drugs. This is because they are absorbed into the systemic
circulation and may produce a physiologic response on the body
a) true
b) false - Answer✔a
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A damaged or absent drugs surface alters the time it takes a drug to reach its intended site
a) true
b) false - Answer✔a
Drug _______ is a reliance on a drug for psychological or physiologic reasons. -
Answer✔dependence
Drug ____ os a dependence on a drug beyond voluntary control. - Answer✔addiction
The term that describes the escape of a fluid from a vessel into tissue is:
a) parenteral
b) extravasation
c) infusion
d) infiltration - Answer✔b
The first 3 months of pregnancy is considered the first ____ of pregnancy. - Answer✔trimester
hypokalemia:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
c)an abnormal decrease in the number of platelets in the circulating blood
d) extremely low number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
e) pathologic conditions of the cellular elements of the blood
f) to move out or pass through a vessel into the tissues - Answer✔a
hypothyroidism:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
c)an abnormal decrease in the number of platelets in the circulating blood
d) extremely low number of polymorphonuclear leukocytes
e) pathologic conditions of the cellular elements of the blood
f) to move out or pass through a vessel into the tissues - Answer✔b
thrombocytopenia:
a) An abnormally low concentration of potassium ions in the blood
b)reduced amount of thyroid hormone, leading to a disease process
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