While checking the medications in your unit's drug box, you ...

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While checking the medications in your unit's drug box, you identify the medication, meperidine hydrochloride, USP. You recognize this as the drugs:
 
  a. Chemical name
  b. Official name
  c. Trade name
  d. Generic name

Question 2

A method of estimating the body surface area burned by a division of the body into regions is known as the:
 
  A) burn depth. B) rule of nines. C) Parkland formula. D) secondary survey.

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Answer to Question 1

b
Rationale: a.chemical name precisely describes the medications atomic and molecular structure
b. The official name of a drug is followed by the letters USP indicating that it is in the official formulary of the United States.
c. A trade name of a drug is the name a manufacturer gives a drug and is registered.
d. The generic name, while similar to the official name does not have USP following it.

Answer to Question 2

B

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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

[deja]

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