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PTCBE
CHAPTER 26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WHICH CLASSS OF DRUGS ARE STRUTURALLY SIMILAR TO PENICILLIN? | CEPHALOSPORINS |
| WHAT IS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF BACTERICIDAL DRUGS? | THEY KILL THE BACTERIA IMMEDIATELY |
| WHAT IS ABROAD SPECTRUM ANTIBIOTIC? | A DRUG THAT IS EFFECTIVE AGAINST BOT GRAM+ AND GRAM- ORGANISIMS |
| WHICH TWO MEDICATIONS CAN CAUSE OTOTOXICITY? | ERYTHROMYCIN AND GENTAMICIN |
| WHAT WOULS YOU DO IF YOU HAVE A PATIENT THAT IS ALLERGIC TO PENICILLIN, AND TOBRAMAX, CECLOR, ZITHROMAX, AND ISONAIZID WERE PRESCRIBED ON HOSPITAL ORDERS. WHICH DRUG WOULD YOU ALERT THE PHARMACIST ABOUT? | CECLOR |
| WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ZOVIRAX? | USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF HERPES INFECTIONS,PREVENTS VIRAL REPLICATION BY INHIBITING VIRAL THYMIDINE KINASE, ONLY ACCUMULATES IN VIRALLY INFECTED CELLS, SO HOST CELL TOXICITY IS MINIMAL |
| LIST ALL THE MACROLIDE ANTIBIOTICS? | ERYTHROMYCIN, AZITHROMYCIN, CLARITHROMYCIN |
| WHIXH MEDICATIONS CAUSE SUN SENSITIVITY? | GENTAMICIN, TETRACYCLINE, MINOCYCLINE |
| WHICH MEDICATION REQUIRES ROUTINE LIVER FUNCTION TESTS? | ISONIAZID |
| YOU HAVE A PATIENT TAKEN ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND SHE WAS GIVEN AMOXICILLIN FOR AN INFECTION. WHAT COULD HAPPEN? | PATIENT MAY BECOME PREGNANT |
| WHAT ARE MICONAZOLE AND KETOCONAZOLE USED TO TREAT? | FUNGAL INFECTIONS |
| WHICH MEDICATION MIGHT PRODUCE TOXIC PRODUCTS AFTER THEIR EXPIRATION DATE? | TETRACYCLINES |
| WHY WOULD TAZOBACTAM BE GIVEN WITH PENICILLIN | TO INACTIVATE THE PENICILLINASE |
| WHY ARE YEAST INFECTIONS A COMMON RESULT OF TAKING ANTIBIOTICS? | ANTIBIOTICS ARE NOT ORGANISM SPECIFIC WIPING OUT THE BODY'S NATURAL BACTERIA POPULATION ALLOWING THE FUNGUS TO GROW |
| WHY IS POLYMOX ORALLY ACTIVE? | IT IS ACID STABLE SO IT CAN BE TAKEN ORALLY |
| WHICH MEDICATION WOULD BE CONTRAINDICATED IF A PATIENT IS DEHYDRATED AND HAS A BACTERIAL INFECTION? | SULFA DRUGS |
| WHY WOULD EXTENDED RELEASE PENICILLINS CONTAIN PROCAINE OR EPINEPHRINE? | THESE AGENTS CAUSE LOCAL VASOCONSTRICTION AT THE INJECTION SITE WHICH SLOWS SYSTEMIC ABSORPTION, WHICH ALLOWS HIGHER DOSES TO BE ADMINISTERED FOR A LONG LASTING EFFECT |
| LIST ALL THE OPTHALMIC ANTIBIOTIC SOLUTIONS | GENTAMICIN, TETRACYLINE, OFLAXACIN, TOBRAMYCIN, CIPROFLOXACIN, LEVOFLOXACIN |
| IF A PATIENT IS TAKING ANTIBIOTICS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN PRESCRIBED, AN IT TURNS OUT THAT THEY HAVE A VIRAL INFECTION INSTEAD OF A BACTERIAL INFECTION, WHAT COULD HAPPEN? | PROMOTE BACTERIAL RESISTANCE TO THE ANTIBIOTIC AND MAY CAUSE A SUPER INFECTION. |