Question

Hydralazine is more effective in childhood and adolescent hypertension than in adult disease.

Select one:

True

False

One of the most common adverse effects of misoprostol that makes the drug difficult to tolerate in older adults is:

Select one:

A.constipation

B.diarrhea

C.hyperphosphatemia

D.headache

Your patient has asked for an antihistamine to relieve his symptoms of an upper respiratory infection. You explain to him that studies have demonstrated that for treatment of the common cold, antihistamines:

Select one:

A.do not relieve symptoms and are not recommended

B.should be compounded with other products to be effective

C.are effective in relieving cold symptoms

D.relieve nonallergenic symptoms only

Clear my choice

For patients taking clozapine, the nurse should assess which of the following laboratory values weekly?

Select one:

A.complete blood count (CBC)

B.liver enzyme studies

C.hemoglobin and hematocrit

D.blood urea nitrogen and creatinine

Folic acid supplementation is especially important to prevent neural-tube birth defects (e.g., spina bifida).

Select one:

True

False

Answer 1

1)the above statement is true because hydralazine is the drug of choice for acute hypertension in hospitalized children and adolescents, it is coming under the category of vasodilators. It help to reduce blood pressure in children it is more useful in children and adolescents group than adult.

2)mesoprostol is the synthetic prostaglandin used to decreased the side effects of NSAIDs and some obstetrical condition .In older adult the administration of mesoprostone cause diarrhoea, this is difficult to tolerate. So the correct answer is diarrhea.

3)the correct answer is option B, it should be used with other products. Some study result show that the use of antihistamine with decongestant and analgesics is effective for treating common cold compared to antihistamine alone. Antihistamine alone is treated for allergies.

4)correct answer is option a ,Complete blood count, because the clozapine is a drug of choice for schizophrenia. The common side effects of these drugs is the agranuloctosis. This will lead to infection in these patient so we have to monitor CBC for white blood cell count especially nutrophils.

5)the above given statement is true because folic acid is an essential vitamin that help to formation of red blood cell and white blood cells and also improve growth of fetus. So folic acid help to prevent occurance of nural tube defect in fetus ,the folic acid help to develop neural tube during early embryonic period so deficiency of folic acid lead to defect in neural tube.