A nurse is conducting patient education on muscarinic poisoning for a group of nurses. To show that they understand what drug should be used to treat muscarinic toxicity, the participants would be correct to choose which drug?
a. Bethanechol (Urecholine)
b. Pilocarpine (Pilocar)
c. Acetylcholine (Miochol)
d. Atropine (Sal-Tropine)
D
Atropine is the best known muscarinic antagonist and would be used for muscarinic toxicity.
Bethanechol is a direct-acting muscarinic agonist and would exacerbate muscarinic toxicity.
Acetylcholine is a muscarinic agonist and would exacerbate muscarinic toxicity.
Pilocarpine is a muscarinic agonist and would exacerbate muscarinic toxicity.
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