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For patients who are diagnosed as slow acetylators, the dosage of hydralazine should be:
 
  1. decreased to avoid drug accumulation.
  2. increased to assure that a therapeutic level has been achieved.
  3. unchanged because acetylation is not relevant to hydralazine.
  4. constant until the patient shows a lack of clinical effects from hydralazine.

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When a patient has been receiving sodium nitroprusside for 1 week, the nurse should be alert for:
 
  1. sudden hypertension from the accumulation of sodium nitroprusside.
  2. cyanide poisoning from the prolonged use of sodium nitroprusside.
  3. thiocyanate accumulation, evidenced by disorientation and delirium.
  4. the development of infection at the arterial line insertion side.



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Answer to Question 1

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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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