Antiseizure medications-naturally suppress pain conduction

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Learning Activity Week 6 McCuistion: Chapters 19, 20, 21, 24, 25

Chapter 19 Antiseizure medications

1. How long will a patient most likely need to take phenytoin when prescribed for a seizure disorder?

2. 10 side effects of phenytoin include

3. What is a contraindication for use of phenytoin?

4. What is a side effect of long term use of Dilantin

Chapter 20

5. Which neurotransmitter is deficient in parkinsonism?

6. What is the drug carbidopa-levodopa prescribed for in Parkinson's disease?

7. What is the action of rivastigmine in Alzheimer's disease? Chapter 21

10. What are three signs of a cholinergic crisis in a patient with myasthenia gravis?

Chapter 25

11. Pain threshold a. neurohormones that naturally suppress pain conduction

12. Pain tolerance b. Class of drugs that relieve pain

13. Neuropathic pain c. Level of stimulus needed to create a sensation of pain

14. Endorphins d. Sensor pain receptors

15. Analgesics e. Pain due to disease or injury of PNS or CNS

16. Nociceptors f. Amount of pain a person can endure and still function normally

17. Opioids suppress pain impulses as well as__ ___and __ _.

18. List three conditions in which opioids would be contraindicated.

Ch. 24 Antiinflammatories

19. Name three over the counter nonsteroidal anriinflammatories.

20. What is the effect of NSAIDs on COX 1 and COX 2?

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