Adjuvant analgesics US Medical PG Flashcards - Medical Study Cards
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Adjuvant analgesics Flashcard Deck - 10 Cards
Flashcard 1: SNRIs may be used to treat chronic pain (e.g. _____ pain)
Answer: neuropathic
Flashcard 2: TCAs may be used to treat peripheral neuropathy and chronic pain (e.g. _____ pain)
Answer: neuropathic
Flashcard 3: Carbamazepine is a _____ spectrum anti-epileptic
Answer: narrow
Flashcard 4: Ketamine causes cardiovascular _____ (depression or stimulation)
Answer: stimulation
Flashcard 5: Ketamine (an arylcyclohexylamine) is a PCP analog that causes '_____ anesthesia'
Answer: dissociative
Flashcard 6: What classes (2) of antidepressant are useful for treating fibromyalgia? _____
Answer: TCAs and SNRIs
Flashcard 7: carbamazepine
Answer: neural tube defects, craniofacial defects, fingernail hypoplasia, developmental delay, IUGR
Flashcard 8: phenytoin
Answer: fetal hydantoin syndrome
Flashcard 9: valproate
Answer: neural tube defects (inhibition of maternal folate absorption)
Flashcard 10: levodopa
Answer:
Extra: Parkinson's disease dopamine precursor, crosses blood-brain barrier, converted to dopamine by dopa decarboxylase GI distress, nausea, arrhythmias, dyskinesia (on dose), akinesia (between dose)
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