A patient with Parkinson disease is depressed because his drug protocol of L-dopa and Sinemet is no longer controlling his symptoms. What is the best response by the nurse?
a. Other drugs can be combined with L-dopa to increase its effectiveness.
b. The effect of these drugs has an uneven course; symptoms will begin to subside again soon.
c. The two drugs can be given in higher doses to control the symptoms.
d. Surgical interventions have been very ef-fective in the control of parkinsonian symptoms.
A
The addition of other drugs to L-dopa may improve the conversion of L-dopa to dopamine. Pal-liative surgical implementations all have had little effect on controlling the symptoms.
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