Published: 3 December 2020
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Test your knowledge: The Prescriber Update quiz 2020
Published: 3 December 2020
Prescriber Update 41(4): 70
December 2020
- Have you been reading Prescriber Update in 2020?
- Have you kept up to date with emerging safety signals?
- Test your knowledge with the end-of-year Prescriber Update
- When prescribing medicines for older patients, how can the anticholinergic
burden be reduced?
- Avoiding, reducing or deprescribing medicines with anticholinergic activity
- Replace medicines with alternatives that do not have anticholinergic activity
- Start treatment at a low dose and increase slowly to the lowest effective dose
- All of the above
- True or False: Oral zinc may increase the absorption of copper.
- A patient taking empagliflozin experiences nausea, anorexia, abdominal pain, excessive thirst, difficulty breathing, confusion and sleepiness. Their blood glucose is normal. What should you do?
- If concomitant use of azathioprine and allopurinol is necessary,
what should the azathioprine dose be reduced to?
- 10 percent of the recommended dose
- 25 percent of the recommended dose
- 75 percent of the recommended dose
- No dose reduction is necessary
- Sweet syndrome:
- Is associated with medicines that reduce the production of white blood cells
- Is treated with antibiotics
- Only affects the eyes and mouth
- None of the above.
- Patients with a deficiency of CYP2D6 may have [increased / reduced] effect from tramadol.
- For patients who have undergone major gastrointestinal surgery,
which of the following are recommended strategies which can be used
to manage their medicines?
- Dose by weight
- Use extended release formulations
- Use medicines which can be monitored where possible
- Switch to a non-oral form of the medicine if available
- Which of the following is a possible adverse reaction to long-term
treatment with nitrofurantoin?
- Peripheral neuropathy
- Chronic interstitial lung disease
- Autoimmune-like hepatitis
- All of the above
- Name two medicines associated with the development of fistulas.
- Exposure to which synthetic progesterone may increase the risk of meningioma?