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NUR 546 EXAM 1 Questions With Correct Answers. Dantrolene Therapeutic use / MOA - answerMuscle relaxant (adverse effect: muscle weakness) Think "lean" as muscles relax Peripherally acting (think distal) Used to treat malignant hyperthermia Dante's Inferno Dantrolene adverse effects - answerA...

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Dantrolene Therapeutic use / MOA - answer✔Muscle relaxant (adverse effect: muscle weakness)


Think "lean" as muscles relax

Peripherally acting (think distal)

Used to treat malignant hyperthermia

Dante's Inferno


Dantrolene adverse effects - answer✔Adverse effects


3 D's

Drowsiness, Dizziness, Diarrhea

Avoid alcohol/CNS depressants

Can cause Liver toxicity


Dantrolene Administration & client education - answer✔Administered via IV push or PO

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Dantrolene Contraindications/precautions/interactions - answer✔Caution CNS depressant meds,

alcohol and calcium channel blockers (can cause cardiac dysrhythmias


Lidocaine Therapeutic use / MOA - answer✔Local anesthesia (can be topical)


Labor - used for epidural or spinal anesthesia

Blocks the influx of Na through Na channels preventing depolarization


Lidocaine Adverse effects - answer✔Lightheadedness (can cause hypotension when used for

spinal anesth.)

Too much can cause CNS stimulation (lidocaine - sugar cane - sugar rush)

Restlessness, irritability, tremors, confusion, convulsions

After CNS stimulation resolves, CNS depressant effects occur causing risk for resp. Arrest


Lidocaine Administration & client education - answer✔Avoid administering in eyes or broken

skin

Use correct concentration and form


Lidocaine Contraindications/precautions/Interactions - answer✔Clients with bradycardia, heart

block can experience cardiac arrest upon administration

Beta blockers, cimetidine and quinidine can increase blood levels of lidocaine


Midazolam (Versed) Therapeutic use / MOA - answer✔General anesthetic/ benzo or sedative

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Enhances inhibitory effects of GABA

Used to provide sedation and induce amnesia


Midazolam (Versed) Adverse effects - answer✔Can cause CNS depressant effects, anterograde

amnesia (memory loss), and cardiac/respiratory arrest


Midazolam (Versed) Administration & client education - answer✔IM, IV or PO


Give by IV bolus and titrate with additional doses for desired depth of sedation


Midazolam (Versed) Contraindications/precautions/interactions - answer✔Caution those with

neuromuscular, cardiac, pulmonary or renal disorders

Pregnancy/delivery/lactation

Enhances CNS depressant effect of other CNS depressants


Methohexital (Brevital) Therapeutic use / MOA - answer✔Used for general anesthesia, causes

CNS depression

Hypotension/resp. Depression


Atorvastatin Therapeutic use / MOA - answer✔Lowers the bad and increases the good

cholesterol

Lower LDL, VLDL, and triglycerides. Increases HDL.

First line for hypercholesterolemia

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