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Lifespan Pharmacology Questions
Question 1 of 5
A patient with emphysema is prescribed ipratropium bromide. The primary effect of this medication is to:
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
A 60-year-old female with a history of diabetes is started on metformin. Which of the following is a common side effect of metformin?
Correct Answer: B
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
A 24-year-old female is prescribed erythromycin for gastroparesis. It is prescribed four times daily due to its short half-life. What is the rationale for such a frequent dosing?
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 4 of 5
As a clinical consultant for the Breathright drug research firm, you are given the task of using an in vitro assay to screen ten thousand drug analogs to find the most potent beta-2 receptor agonist. When analyzing your data, the biomarker that you should screen for is:
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
A 33-year-old woman was hospitalized after 1 week of increasing pain, tenderness, and cyanosis in her legs. She admitted to taking several medications to relieve a migraine headache. Physical examination revealed that no pulses could be palpated below the femoral vessels, and an aortogram showed a pronounced constriction of the vessels distal to the iliac arteries. The vasoconstriction disappeared after 3 hours of nitroprusside intravenous infusion. Which of the following drugs most likely caused the vessel constriction?
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.