You have discovered a medication error. How soon must you complete a medication error form?

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Question 1 of 5

You have discovered a medication error. How soon must you complete a medication error form?

Correct Answer: C

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 2 of 5

A 47-year-old man presents to the ambulatory care center with symptoms of hypoglycemia and is found to have an insulinoma. His medical history is significant for occasional asthma, which he treats using an albuterol inhaler, and an MI for which he takes daily low-dose aspirin. Because he takes aspirin, he is not able to immediately undergo surgery. The physician prescribes diazoxide for therapy until the tumor can be removed. Diazoxide stimulates potassium channels leading to inhibition of insulin release. Which of the following is most likely to occur in this patient as a result of diazoxide therapy?

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 3 of 5

A 53-year-old man who is a 40 pack-year smoker presents to his primary care physician with a productive cough, fever, and chills. He sits in an office all day and recently began using an air conditioner as the weather has warmed. No organisms were visible with a gram stain of sputum, but a silver stain reveals rods. His medical history includes myocardial infarction, for which he takes ticlopidine; hyperglycemia, for which he takes metformin; and a congenital QT segment prolongation. For which of the following reasons would the physician be hesitant to prescribe erythromycin to treat his legionellosis?

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 4 of 5

A 49-year-old man with a fungal infection is hospitalized and is being treated with oral ketoconazole. To help with intestinal absorption of this agent, which of the following agents should be given to this patient?

Correct Answer: D

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

Question 5 of 5

A 24-year-old Caucasian woman with dysplastic nevus syndrome presents to her annual checkup with a suspicious-looking mole. The physician decides to remove it. To prepare the site, she injects a lidocaine preparation. The surrounding tissue blanches. What is most likely present with the lidocaine that causes the blanching?

Correct Answer: A

Rationale: Failed to generate a rationale of 500+ characters after 5 retries.

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