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MCQs in pharmacotherapy part-1
Pharmacotherapy has been the essential textbook for learning how to properly select, administer, and monitor drugs―everything needed to provide safe, effective drug therapy across all therapeutic categories.
In this video multiple-choice questions, in pharmacotherapy part 1 that are very important questions that you may encounter in many exams.
It has included 15 multiple choice questions which is well prepared to help students their exam. These video is an important questions that helps pharmacy students, nursing students, medical students and all healthcare professionals.
MCQs:
1. A 32-year-old woman with
hypertension wishes to become
pregnant. Her physician informs
her that she will have to switch to
another antihypertensive drug.
Which of the following drugs is
absolutely contraindicated in
pregnancy?
(A) Atenolol
(B) Losartan
(C) Methyldopa
(D) Nifedipine
2. Which one of the following would
increase oxygen demand and potentially precipitate angina?
(A) Anemia
(B) Hyperthyroidism
(C) Sickle cell disease
(D) Hypoxemia
3. A patient with hypertension and
angina is referred for treatment.
Metoprolol and verapamil are among the drugs considered. Both metoprolol and verapamil are associated with which one of the following?
(A) Diarrhea
(B) Hypoglycemia
(C) Increased PR interval
(D) Tachycardia
4. Which of the following is an important effect of chronic therapy with loop diuretics?
(A) Decreased urinary excretion of calcium
(B) Elevation of blood pressure
(C) Elevation of pulmonary vascular
pressure
(D) Metabolic alkalosis
5- Which one of the following is the
recommended initial drug therapy for
angina once as needed use of
nitroglycerin is no longer adequate?
(A) β-blockers
(B) Nitrates
(C) Calcium channel blockers
(D) ACEI
6. A patient is admitted to the
emergency department with
severe tachycardia after a drug
overdose. His family reports that
he has been depressed about his
hypertension. Which one of the
following drugs increases the
heart rate in a dose-dependent
manner?
(A) Captopril
(B) Hydrochlorothiazide
(C) Losartan
(D) Minoxidil
7-Which of the following has been
shown to prolong life in patients with
chronic congestive failure in spite of
having a negative inotropic effect on
cardiac contractility?
(A) Carvedilol
(B) Digoxin
(C) Dobutamine
(D) Enalapril
8. Which one of the following drugs is associated with clinically useful or
physiologically important positive inotropic effect?
(A) Captopril
(B) Dobutamine
(C) Enalapril
(D) Losartan
9. Which category of drug therapy can raise HDL the most?
(A) Niacin
(B) Fibrates
(C) Bile acid binding resins
(D) Statins
10. Which one of the following is
characteristicof nifedipine treatm
ent in patients with essential
hypertension?
(A) Competitively blocks
angiotensin II at its receptor
(B) Decreases calcium
efflux from skeletal muscle
(C) Decreases renin concentration in the blood
(D) Decreases calcium influx into smooth muscle
11. Which of the following diuretics
would be most useful in the acute
treatment of a comatose patient with traumatic brain injury and cerebral edema?
(A) Acetazolamide
(B) Amiloride
(C) Mannitol
(D) Chlorthalidone
12. A 58-year-old woman with lung
cancer has abnormally low serum
osmolality and hyponatremia. A drug that increases the formation of dilute urine and is used to treat SIADH is
(A) Acetazolamide
(B) Desmopressin
(C) Tolvaptan
(D) Ethacrynic acid
13. Which of the following are potential clinical manifestations of atherosclerotic disease?
(A) Limb ischemia
(B) Myocardial infarction
(C) Stroke
(D) All of the above
14. If a patient with angina can walk no more than one to two blocks or climb
one flight of stairs at a normal pace, the patient would be classified as:
(A) Class I
(B) Class II
(C) Class III
(D) Class IV
15. A 72-year-old woman has long-
standing heart failure. Which one of
the following drugs has been shown
to reduce mortality in chronic heart
failure?
(A) Atenolol
(B) Digoxin
(C) Dobutamine
(D) Spironolactone
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