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james · **on:** Jun 25, 2018

The nurse should anticipate that a patient diagnosed with spastic bladder dysfunction may be prescribed which of the following medications that will help decrease detrusor muscle tone and increase bladder capacity? Select all that apply.

A)
Ditropan (Oxybutynin), an antimuscarinic drug
B)
Detrol LA (tolterodine tartrate), an antimuscarinic drug
C)
Uroxatral (alfuzosin), an -adrenergic antagonist
D)
Flomax (tamsulosin), an -blocker
E)
Bactrim (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim), antibiotics

Question 2

A patient has just been diagnosed with acute glomerulonephritis. Which question should the nurse ask this client in attempting to establish a cause?

A)
Do you have a history of heart failure?
B)
Have you recently had kidney stones?
C)
Have you ever been diagnosed with diabetes?
D)
Have you had any type of infection within the last 2 weeks?

Chocorrol77 · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 25, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Ans:
A, B

Feedback:

Antimuscarinic drugs, such as oxybutynin, tolterodine, and propantheline, decrease detrusor muscle tone and increase bladder capacity in people with spastic bladder dysfunction. Answer choices C and D are medications prescribed for males with BPH.

Answer to Question 2

Ans:
D

Feedback:

Acute postinfectious glomerulonephritis usually occurs after infection with certain strains of group A -hemolytic streptococci and is caused by deposition of immune complexes of antibody and bacterial antigens. Other organisms can also cause this infection.