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What do you give alongside cancer drugs?
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Allopurinol -- reduce uric acid that comes from rapid cell destruction
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What type of tubing for chemo drugs?
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vented
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cisplatin
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ototoxic, nephrotosic -- hypo electrolytes
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cytoxan
SE? Food? |
hemmorhagic cystitis
Without food |
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How low of platelet count before you withhold meds?
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less than 75,000
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What do you want to do to urine when on chemo?
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Alkaline it --
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What do mycin meds do?
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vesication at IV site
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Doxorubicin?
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cardiotoxic
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Bleomycin?
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pulmonary toxic
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5-FU
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photoxic reactions -- stomatitis --
cerebellar dysfunction |
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Methotrexate
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stomatitis
hepatotoxic phototoxic |
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what do you administer along with methotrexate
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leucovorin
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Oncovin
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neurotoxic
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What is vasopressin?
When used? How administered? |
ADH
used for diabetes insipidus nasally |
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Levothyroxine -- when do you take and with food or without?
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preferrably morning without food
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What are hypothyroid medications?
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Iodine solution
PTU Tapazole |
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How do you take hypothyroid meds?
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with meals
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what can happen if you abruptly stop hypothyroid meds?
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thyroid crisis -- fever, tachy, signs of heart failure
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What type of medications should you avoid while taking antithyroid medications (iodine)?
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aspirin
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What medicines increase calcium and which ones decrease calcium
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Calcium carbonate and citrate increase
Calcitonin and fosamax - regulate |
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what type of medications for adrenal replacement?
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prednisone, etc.
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what do steroids increase the effects of?
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hyperglycemia
sodium and water retention increase potency of aspirin and NSAIDS -- increase bleed risk |
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what medication decreases effect of prednisone?
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dilantin and rifadin
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what medication used for addison's disease?
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Florinef -- fludrocortisone
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What type of diet with Florinef?
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high potassium
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What type of medications are androgens?
what's biggest SE? |
testosterone, etc.
hepatotoxic |
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What should you avoid when taking androgens?
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hepatotoxic meds -- cause more
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What do estrogens stimulate?
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female reproductive tissue
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What do progesterones stimulate?
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uterine lining
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what type of medications should you avoid with estrogen and progesterone?
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hepatotoxic meds
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What does glyburide and glipizide do?
When do you take it? |
stimulate beta cells to make more insulin
30 minutes before meal |
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what does metformin do?
When do you take it? |
decrease liver production of glucose
take with meals |
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What does acarbose do?
When do you take |
slows down carb absorption in intestines?
Take with first bite of meal |
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What does Actos and AVandia do?
When do you take? |
improves peripheral insulin sensitivity
with or without meals |
