Acute & Critical Care Medicine: pharmacology practice questions
Acute & Critical Care Medicine is a high-yield area on the PEBC, NAPLEX, OPRA and FPGEE exams. Phartoonz has 46 exam-style Acute & Critical Care Medicine questions, each written to test the clinical decisions these licensing exams actually reward — mechanism of action, dosing, monitoring parameters, adverse effects, contraindications and patient counseling.
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Sample questions
Sample 1
An ICU patient is receiving dexmedetomidine for sedation. Which of the following statements regarding dexmedetomidine is correct?
- 1The duration of the infusion should not exceed 72 hours.
- 2This agent has higher risk of causing respiratory depression compared to other sedatives.
- 3Patients are arousable and alert upon stimulation when using this agent.
- 4Dexmedetomidine is an alpha-2 adrenergic antagonist.
- 5Patients receiving dexmedetomidine must be intubated.
Sample 2
Which of the following agents is a depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent?
- 1Succinylcholine
- 2Cisatracurium
- 3Pancuronium
- 4Vecuronium
- 5Atracurium
Sample 3
Which of the following statements concerning rocuronium, vecuronium and cisatracurium is incorrect?
- 1According to ISMP, these are all classified as "HIGH-RISK" medications.
- 2These agents are paralytics, or neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs).
- 3These agents provide a high degree of sedation.
- 4These agents should have a warning applied to the bag, such as: "WARNING: PARALYZING AGENT".
- 5They are non-depolarizing neuromuscular blockers which bind to the acetylcholine receptor and block the action of acetylcholine.
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