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Antiemetic and Antinausea drugs UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Nausea - CORRECT ANSWER- unpleasant feeling that often precedes vomiting Emesis - CORRECT ANSWER- forcible emptying of gastric, and occasionally intestinal contents Antiemetic drugs - CORRECT ANSWER- used to r...

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Antiemetic and Antinausea drugs
UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Nausea - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- unpleasant feeling that often precedes vomiting



Emesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- forcible emptying of gastric, and occasionally intestinal
contents


Antiemetic drugs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- used to relieve nausea and vomiting



Voming center - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Medulla



Chemoreceptor trigger zone - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- gastrointestinal tract, labrynth
(inner ear), and Cerebral Cortex


Antiemetic and Antinausea Drugs Mechanisms of action - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- many
different mechanisms f action, most work by bocking one of the vomiting pathways, thus
blocking the stimulus that induces vomting


Antiemetic and Antinausea indications - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- specific indications vary
per class of antiemetics, general use for each type: prevention and reduction of nausea and
vomiting


Antiemetic and Antinausea drugs - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- Anticholinergics,
Antihistamine, antidopaminergics, prokinetic, serotonin blockers, tertahydrocannabinoids


Anticholinergics Drugs mechanisms of action - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- bind to and vlock
acetylcholine receptors in the inner ear (labrynth), blocks transimttion of nauseating stimuli
to CTZ, also block transmission of nauseating stimuli from the reticular formation to the VC
Example: Scopolamine (also used for motion sickeness)

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