To ensure prompt treatment if anaphylaxis should develop patients should be?
✓ -:- observed for at least 30 minutes after drug injection (i.e., until
the risk of an anaphylactic reaction has passed).
To minimize the chances of an anaphylactic reaction, penicillin should be
administered
✓ -:- an initial small dose is followed at 60-minute intervals by
progressively larger doses until the full therapeutic dose has been
achieved
Morphine overdose treatment
✓ -:- -Naloxone (narcan)
-Intravenous, IM, and subQ. For initial treatment, administer IV
CT‐diarrhea‐action
✓ -:- -decrease intestinal motility and thereby slow intestinal transit,
which allows more time for absorption of fluid and electrolytes
-activation of opioid receptors decreases secretion of fluid into the small intestine
and increases absorption of fluid and salt.
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