During an eye assessment, the nurse asks about a client's use of eye medications, recognizing that many of them can affect which body systems?
1. Cardiovascular and respiratory
2. Gastrointestinal and endocrine
3. Endocrine and digestive
4. Urinary and reproductive
Answer: 1
1. Systemic absorption of various eye medications can have adverse effects. Sympathomimetic drugs can increase blood pressure and cause irregular pulse rates or chest pain. Beta blockers can exacerbate COPD, asthma, and heart failure.
2. Eye medication is not known to affect the gastrointestinal or endocrine systems.
3. Eye medication is not known to affect the endocrine and digestive systems.
4. Eye medication is not known to affect the urinary and reproductive systems.
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