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Learning Lab Values & Drug Monitoring: pharmacology practice questions

Learning Lab Values & Drug Monitoring is a high-yield area on the PEBC, NAPLEX, OPRA and FPGEE exams. Phartoonz has 29 exam-style Learning Lab Values & Drug Monitoring 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
A 55-year-old female presented to the hospital with weakness and dyspnea. She was diagnosed with pneumonia and severe hemolytic anemia. The Coombs test was positive. The patient received a blood transfusion and was treated with prednisone and clarithromycin for pneumonia. 

 

Medications taken at home were aspirin, irbesartan, simvastatin, sertraline, rifampin and atenolol.
 
Medical Conditions: Hypertension, dyslipidemia, depression, TB-test positive (annual work requirement).

 

Which medication is most likely to have caused the hemolytic anemia?
  • 1Aspirin
  • 2Irbesartan
  • 3Simvastatin
  • 4Sertraline
  • 5Rifampin
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Sample 2

Which of the following medications are known to contribute to drug-induced hemolysis and would require discontinuation in a patient who developed hemolysis after use of the drug? (Select ALL that apply.)

  • 1Methyldopa
  • 2Quinidine
  • 3Rasburicase
  • 4Naloxone
  • 5Linezolid
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Sample 3
A patient has G6PD-deficiency. What can occur as a result of this disease if the patient receives primaquine for malaria prophylaxis? (Select ALL that apply.)
  • 1The patient will be at higher risk of contracting malaria.
  • 2The patient will be at higher risk of developing primaquine-induced neurotoxicity.
  • 3The patient will be at risk for excessive destruction of red blood cells.
  • 4The patient will have increased renal excretion of electrolytes.
  • 5The patient will develop leukopenia.
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