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What is the drug of choice for petit mal seizures?
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Ethosuximide
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What is another term for petit mal seizures?
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Absence Seizures
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What is the drug of choice for status epilepticus?
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Diazepam
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What is the drug of choice for vertigo?
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Meclizine
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What is the drug of choice for chemotherapy induced nausea?
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Metoclopramide
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What is the drug of choice for motion sickness?
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Scopolamine
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What effect does magnesium have on bowel movements and why?
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Magnesium increases them due to the osmotic effect.
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To what classes of drugs (provide 2 answers, one general and one specific) do lorazepam, diazepam, triazolam, and chlordiazepoxide belong?
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1. General class: anxiolytics
2. Specific: benzodiazepines |
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Barbiturates have a high suicide potential. What's the common way for them to cause death if overdose occurs?
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Respiratory depression
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Name the collateral ganglia.
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1. Preaortic: celiac, superior mesenteric, inferior mesenteric
2. Cervical |
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Which Chapman's points are used for assessment? What about for treatment?
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Assessment uses the anterior points. Posterior are used for treatment with the exception of the GI points on the anterior tibial band.
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What are the four anatomical transition sites of fascia?
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1. OA
2. Cervicothoracic 3. Thoracolumbar 4. Lumbosacral |
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What cranial nerve is affected by manipulation of the sphenopalatine ganglion?
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Cranial nerve VII.
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What are the three components of the primary respiratory mechanism?
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1. CNS
2. CSF 3. Dural membranes |
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What are the three dural attachments?
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1. Foramen magnum
2. C2 and C3 3. S2 |
