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Hematology drugs Questions
Question 1 of 5
The nurse notes in the patient's medication order that the patient will be starting anticoagulant therapy. What is the primary goal of anticoagulant therapy?
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 2 of 5
Low concentrations of heparin selectively interfere with the following coagulation pathway(s)
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 3 of 5
Initiation of unfractionated heparin therapy for the patient in question 1 would best be achieved with
Correct Answer: A
Rationale: Varying nomograms for dosing continuous-infusion unfractionated heparin exist in the medical and pharmaceutical literature. The loading dose is typically 70-100 units/kg. Maintenance doses of 15-25 units/kg/hr are typically used. A 5000-unit loading dose followed by 1000 units/hr is a standard initial regimen.
Question 4 of 5
The following drug reduces the effect of oral anticoagulants
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.
Question 5 of 5
Which of the following tests are used to monitor antithrombotic therapy? I. International normalized ratio (INR) II. Activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT) III. Heparin assay
Correct Answer: C
Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.