Opioids & Sedatives
This opioid is the prototype for moderate–severe pain and causes respiratory depression
What is Morphine?
Excess dopamine contributes to these two hallmark positive symptoms of psychosis.
What is Hallucinations & delusions?
Parkinson’s disease results from decreased levels of this neurotransmitter.
Dopamine
Blocking acetylcholine causes bronchodilation, decreased secretions, and this cardiac effect.
Increased heart rate
Ptosis, dysphagia, and muscle weakness indicate this neuromuscular autoimmune condition.
Myasthenia Gravis
This synthetic opioid patch is not for opioid-naïve patients due to fatal respiratory depression risk.
What is Fentanyl Patch?
This typical antipsychotic causes EPS, orthostatic hypotension, and photosensitivity.
What is chlorpromazine?
This drug combination increases dopamine in the brain and is dosed three times daily.
Levodopa-Carbidopa
This GI antispasmodic requires the patient to void before taking the medication.
Dicyclomine (Bently)
This medication prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction.
Pyrridostigmine
This sleep medication may cause sleep-walking, hallucinations, and abnormal behaviors.
What is Zolpidem?
This life-threatening condition causes fever, rigidity, tachycardia, and respiratory failure.
Neuroleptic Malignant syndrome
This COMT inhibitor has a black box warning for fatal liver failure.
Tolcapone
Symptoms of toxicity include hyperthermia, tachycardia, mydriasis, and this GI emergency.
Paralytic Ileus
Sweating, salivation, diarrhea, bradycardia, and respiratory distress indicate this emergency.
Cholinergic crisis
This opioid has lower abuse potential but increases the risk for serotonin syndrome.
What is Tramadol?
This atypical antipsychotic can cause agranulocytosis, requiring WBC monitoring.
Clozapine
This normal side effect of COMT inhibitors may cause patients to report “brownish-orange” sweat.
Entacapone
This IV agent is the antidote for anticholinergic overdose.
Physostigmine
This Alzheimer’s drug must be taken at night and may cause GI upset, GI bleeding, and insomnia.
Donepezil
This opioid antagonist reverses respiratory depression within 2 minutes when given IV.
An order for 20 mg IV haloperidol in an elderly patient is unsafe because of this cardiac risk.
QT prolongation-->fatal arrhythmias
High-protein meals interfere with the absorption of this medication.
Levodopa
This urinary antispasmodic can cause cognitive impairment and should be used cautiously in older adults.
Oxybutynin
This NMDA antagonist blocks excess glutamate, preventing neuronal death but may cause hallucinations.
Memantine