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MirandaLo

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The nurse is caring for a female patient whose tests confirm she is 10 weeks pregnant and has contracted tuberculosis. The health care provider orders a combination of antimycobacterials.
 
  What combination of drugs would the nurse identify as safest for this pregnant patient? A) Isoniazid, ethambutol, and rifampin
  B) Rifabutin, streptomycin, and rifampin
  C) Capreomycin, cycloserine, and ethionamide
  D) Dapsone, ethambutol, and cycloserine

Question 2

A female college student with migraine headaches that cause nausea and vomiting has been prescribed trimethobenzamide (Tigan). It is important for the nurse to caution the student to avoid using what?
 
  A) St. John's wort
  B) Calcium channel blockers
  C) Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
  D) Alcohol



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Answer to Question 1

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The antituberculosis drugs are always used in combination to affect the bacteria at various cellular stages and first-line drugs are always the first choice, using second-line drugs only when the patient is unable to take the first-line medications. Because this patient is pregnant, the safest choices would be isoniazid, ethambutol, and rifampin but no drug is administered during pregnancy unless the benefit outweighs the risk. The other drug choices would be less safe and would not be used unless the safer drugs were contraindicated.

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Locally acting antiemetics depress areas of the CNS. If combined with other CNS depressants, such as alcohol, patients could experience increasing CNS depression including dizziness and somnolence. St. John's wort, calcium channel blockers, and SSRIs are not CNS depressants.




MirandaLo

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Reply 2 on: Jul 23, 2018
:D TYSM


aruss1303

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Great answer, keep it coming :)

 

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