BCPS TESTS COMPILATION BUNDLE

Asthma Severity - intermittent Sx frequency Night awakenings SABA use FEV OCS Use Step Needed? correct answer: Sx < 2days per week Night - < 2 per mo SABA use - <2 per week FEV Normal OCS 0-1 time per year Step 1 Asthma Severity - Mild persistent Sx frequency Night awakeni...

anti htn of choice in pregnancy correct answer: methyldopa, labetolol AC of choice in pregnancy correct answer: enox n/v meds for pregnancy correct answer: pyridoxine, doxylamine, meclizine, dimenhydrainate avoid in breastfeeding correct answer: opioids, contrast (x3wks after), bupropri...

Persistent versus sustained AF correct answer: Persistent: >7 days Sustained: > or equal to 12 months CHA2DS2-VASc correct answer: C: chronic heart failure (1) H: hypertension (1) Age: 75 (2) D: diabetes (1) S: stroke (2) V: vascular disease (MI, PAD, aortic plaque) 1 A: 65-74 (1) ...

____ is the most appropriate answer because there are no drug-drug interactions or contraindications / cautions in HIV correct answer: Bictegravir n patients with persistent neutropenic fever despite anti-pseudomonal coverage, what should be considered? correct answer: empiric antifungal therap...

Types of random variables correct answer: discrete and continuous discrete - values are limited (nominal and ordinal) continuous - values are not (interval and ratio) Discrete Variable correct answer: Can only be limited number of values within a given range Nominal and ordinal data ...

Cockgroft-Gault Equation correct answer: Crcl = (140 -age) x body weight / SCr x 72. (X 0.85 if female) MDRD equation correct answer: eGFR ML/min/1.73 m2. = 175 x SCr x age (x 0.472 if female ) (x 1.212 if African American Corrected calcium equation correct answer: serum calcium + 0.8(4-ser...

What does the Practice of Pharmacy include? correct answer: Interpretation, evaluation, dispensing, and/pr implementation of medical orders, and the initiation and provision of Pharmacist Care Services What are Pharmacist Care Services correct answer: Provisions of patient care activities with ...

Patient Case RL is a 68 year old man Chief complaint: cough and shortness of breath HPI: Symptoms began 4 days ago and have worsened over the last 24 hours. He is coughing up yellowish-green sputum and complains of chills with a fever to 102.4°F PMH: CAD with an MI 5 years ago, CHF, hyperten...

Discrete Variables correct answer: Can only take a limited number of values within a given range. 1. Nominal 2. Ordinal Nominal Data correct answer: Discrete Variable Data of categories only, unordered, with no indication of relative severity. Data cannot be arranged in an ordering scheme....

FDA office of commissioner correct answer: top office senate confirmation overall agency coordination FDA office of chief counsel correct answer: legal affairs FDA office of regulatory affairs correct answer: largest office all inspection and enforcement center for drug eval and res...

sensitivity formula correct answer: "Sensitivity =true positive/(true positive +false negative) Note: more sensitive is closer to 1" specificity formula correct answer: Specificity = True negative/(true negative + false positive) precision definition correct answer: how consistent the tes...

AKIN- acute kidney injury network- any 1 of these 3 things in 48hrs constitutes AKI correct answer: 1. scr increase by 0.3 mg/dL 2. SCr increase by 50% from baseline 3. urine output <0.5L/kg/hr for 6 hrs RIFLE criteria used to stage AKI correct answer: Risk, injury, failure, loss, or end-...

Senate committees with jurisdiction over health-related policy? correct answer: Finance: Social Security Act (Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP) Appropriations: allocates funds (discretionary) Veterans' Affairs: Aging: no legislative authority HELP: DHHS (FDA, NIH, CDC) House committees with jurisdi...

Outcomes research correct answer: Research on measures of change in patient outcomes Pharmacoeconomics correct answer: behavior or welfare of individuals, firms, markets relative to pharmaceutics, services and programs Value correct answer: health outcomes per dollar spent patient health...