NU641 final Exam Study Guide with Complete Solutions
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2024/2025
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2024/2025
NU641 final Exam Study Guide with
Complete Solutions
Carbamazepine (Tegretol) - Answer--also used for mood stabilizer
-Uses: Epilepsy-partial complex seizures and generalized, Bipolar disorders, Trigeminal and
glossopharyngeal neuralgias
-CBC before & periodically during
-Adverse effects:
-C...
epilepsy - Answer✔✔-Group of disorders characterized by excessive neuron stimulation within
the central nervous system
anticonvulsants - Answer✔✔--know pts medication regimen; many drug-drug interactions with
anticonvulsants
-anticonvulsants commonly carry narrow therapeutic indexes, i.e. their doses and blood levels
work in a narrow range balancing between being ineffective and toxic.
-NPs do not prescribe them
types of seizures - Answer✔✔--Partial (focal) seizures
-Simple partial
-Complex partial
-Secondarily generalized
-Generalized seizures
-Tonic-clonic (grand mal)
-Absence (loss of consciousness)
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