When prescribing for migraines, patient education includes:
1. Triptans are safe to be used as often as needed as long as the patient is healthy.
2. Use triptan before trying OTC meds such as acetaminophen or naproxen.
3. Stress reduction and regular sleep are integral to migraine treatment.
4. If migraines worsen they are to increase their medication.
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1. not fire. 2. fire only the ventricles. 3. change the rate of firing. 4. fire both the atria and the ventricles.
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a. The time it takes for a drug to elicit a therapeutic response b. The amount of time needed to remove a drug from circulation c. The time it takes for a drug to achieve its maximum therapeutic response d. The time period at which a drug's con-centration is sufficient to cause a thera-peutic response
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1. This was an initiative of President Clinton's Presidential Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. 2. Patient privacy was considered during this work. 3. The United States still does not have a consumer bill of rights, protections, and responsibilities. 4. The work focused on patient issues, but did not address practitioner qualifications. 5. This has been the most successful of the programs to come out of that decade of work.