Provide four reasons why it is important for a clinician to know which concomitant drugs a patient is taking prior to the administration of local anesthetics
What will be an ideal response?
1. They may influence the choice of local anesthetic drug and quantity administered.
2. They may affect the efficacy, metabolism, and elimination of a local anesthetic drug.
3. They may potentiate the actions or delay the metabolism of local anesthetic drugs.
4. They may be affected by the local anesthetic drugs.
You might also like to view...
Data Encryption Standard (DES) uses a key length ____.
A. 56 bits B. 128 bits C. 480 bits D. one byte
What color is an injured tissue?
A) Black B) Bluish C) Pale whitish D) Bright red
There are many problems with the current IOC "female fairness" policy. Which of the following is NOT one of those problems? The policy
A. assumes that testosterone is the only factor that identifies sex. B. is administered by male officials from the United Nations. C. has requirements that are unfair to women who lack resources. D. ignores hormones as a source of unfairness in men's sports.
What type of infusion device has a reservoir that is implanted within a subcutaneous pocket?
a. Intraperitoneal catheter b. Hickman catheter c. Groshong catheter d. Subcutaneous infusion port