This enzyme converts Angiotensin I to Angiotensin II under the normal compensatory hormonal mechanism of decreased renal perfusion.
What is Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE)?
100
The first line treatment for osteoarthritis that prevents prostaglandin synthesis by inhibiting central cyclooxygenase
What is acetaminophen?
100
The amount of daily elemental iron needed to treat iron-deficiency anemia.
What is 200mg?
100
This class of medications inhibits H/K-ATPase in parietal cells resulting in achlorhydria.
What are the proton pump inhibitors?
100
This classification system is used to define severity of liver disease and can be used to make dosing recommendations in patients with liver disease.
What is Child-Turcotte-Pugh (CTP) Classification?
200
Name 3 main tests used to assess renal function for monitoring drug therapy
What are Blood Urea Nitrogen, Serum Creatinine, and Creatinine Clearance
200
Long-acting opioid with a longer half-life than most opioids, but causes less euphoria than morphine. Can be used in patients with a heroin addiction.
What is methadone?
200
Name 3 side effects of oral iron therapy.
What is constipation/diarrhea, dark/discolored feces, abdominal cramping, nausea/vomiting, epigastric pain?
200
When using this agent as a part of a 4-drug regimen for H. pylori treatment, patients should be counseled to avoid all alcohol ingestion.
What is metronidazole?
200
Adherence is the main limitation to this pharmacologic agent’s use.
What is disulfiram (Antabuse®)?
300
The typical BUN/Cr ratio in a patient with pre-renal acute kidney injury
What is 20:1
300
What percentage of the long-acting opioid dose should be used as immediate-release opioid for alleviation of breakthrough pain?
What is 10-15%?
300
With the functional asplenia often associated with sickle cell anemia, Strep pneumoniae infections can be prevented by either administering a vaccination or prophylactic use of this antibiotic.
What is penicillin? (also accept erythromycin)
300
T/F: Ulcerative Colitis can occur anywhere in the GI tract whereas Crohn’s occurs only in the colon.
What is false?
300
This class of medications can be used as adjunctive therapy to lower HR, BP, and tremors in alcohol withdrawal syndrome.
What are beta-blockers (or clonidine)?
400
True or False: The goal Hg for a patient with anemia of chronic dease on ESA therapy is >12mg/dL
What is False (Goal = 10-12mg/dL)
400
This is defined as a primary, chronic neurobiologic disease, with genetic, psychosocial, and environmental factors influencing its development and manifestations.
What is addiction?
400
This term refers to the average volume of red blood cells. Values greater than 100 fl could indicate the presence of folic acid deficiency.
What is Mean Corpuscular Volume (MCV)?
400
Name the 3 components commonly found in pancreatic enzyme replacement capsules
What are lipase, amylase, and protease?
400
Acute gallbladder inflammation that causes severe abdominal pain
What is cholecystitis?
500
What is the Cockgroft-Gault equation for calculating an estimated creatinine clearance?
[(140-age) * IBW] / [Scr * 72] (*0.85 if woman)
500
A prescription medical food used for osteoarthritis that exerts anti-inflammatory properties though non-specific inhibition of cyclooxygenase and lipoxygenase pathways.
What is flavocoxoid?
500
Name two indications for parenteral iron.
What are (any 2 of the following):
Severe iron malabsorption
Noncompliance with oral therapy
Severe intolerance with oral therapy
Chronic uncorrectable bleeding
Diminished erythropoiesis
Significant blood loss and unable to be transfused
500
Which of following preparations of mesalamine is INCORRECTLY matched with its dosage form?
a. Canasa: rectal suppository
b. Rowasa: rectal enema
c. Lialda: oral solution
d. Asacol: oral tablet
e. Pentasa: oral capsule
What is c? Lialda is a delayed-release oral tablet that is designed for once daily dosing.
500
The maximum doses of the diuretics used to treat ascites, a pathologic fluid accumulation in the peritoneal cavity due to portal hypertension