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Pharm Ch. 44
Antiinflammatory & Antigout
Question | Answer |
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What is done nomagram? | a standard data graph used for rating the severity of aspirin toxicity following overdoes |
What is gout? | Hyperuricemia, the arthritis caused by tissue buildup of uric acid crystals |
What is inflammation? | a localized protective response stimulation by injury to tissues that serve sto destroy, dilute, or wall off both the injurious agent and the injured tissue |
What are NSAIDS? | A LARGE AND CHEMICALLY DIVERSE GROUP OF DRUGS THAT POSSESS ANALGESIC, ANTIINFLAMMARTORY, ANTIRHEUMATIC, AND ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY |
What is salicylism? | the syndrome of salicylate toxicity, including symptoms such as tinnitus, nausea, and vomiting |
What is aspirin? | NSAID |
What does indocin treat? | RA, osteoarthritis, acute bursitis or tendonitis and acute gouty arthritis |
What is celebrax? | COX 2 inhibitor, treat RA, osteoarthritis, acute pain symtptoms, and dysmenorrhea |
NSAIDS are one of the most commonly? | prescribed categories of drugs |
What was the first drug in this categoary to be synthesized? | salicylic acid or asprin |
What are the characteristics of NSAIDS? | analgesic, antiinflammatory, and antipeuretic |
What are the 3 main effects of NSAIDS? | GI intolerance, bleeding and renal impairment |
What is known to prevent GI intolerance and ulcers made by NSAIDS? | cytotec |
NSAIDS should be taken with? | food |
What are common AE for antigout drugs? | diarrhea and abdominal pain |
What are antigout drugs usually given? | during cancer chemo |
What a pt is receiving long term NSAID therapy, which drug may be given to prevent the serious GI AE of NSAIDS? | Cytotec |
The nurse recognized that manifestations of NSAID toxicity include? | N |
Druing a treaching session about antigout drugs, the nurse would tell the pt that antigout drugs work by which mechanism? | Decreasing serum uric acid levels |
when the nurse is teaching about antigout drugs, which statment by the nurse is accurate? | Colchicine is best taken on an empty stomach |
A mother calls that clinic to ask what medication to give her 5 year old child for a fever druing a bout of chickenpox. the nurse's best response would be? | You can use children dosage of tylenol or ibuprofen, asprin is not recommended |