APMLE Recall Questions Pharmacology with Complete

APMLE Recall Questions Pharmacology with Complete Solutions 100% Correct Answers

• What happens to the eye when treated with atropine - Correct Answer Mydriasis (drooping of the

eye)

• TCA MOA - Correct Answer Blocks the reuptake of NE, serotonin, and dopamine
• What drugs cause an SLE like RXN (drug induced lupus) - Correct Answer Procainamide, INH,

hydralazine, phenytoin

• DOC for post-surgical pain - Correct Answer Morphine
• Pt comes in ER, is unconscious and respiration is depressed, what would you use - Correct Answer

(heroin OD) Naloxone (Narcan)

• What rx is used as an antiemetic postop - Correct Answer Thioridazine
• What are ACE inhibitors - Correct Answer Antihypertensives
• What do you give for atropine poisoning - Correct Answer Physostigmine/Scopolomine
• Which drug causes hair growth - Correct Answer Minoxidil (Anti HTN VD)
• What blocks the activation of histamine in asthma - Correct Answer Epinephrine
• What antibiotics work on the cell wall - Correct Answer Penicillins
• What does not inhibit cell wall synthesis - Correct Answer Erythromycin
• Which do you not use with antacids - Correct Answer Tetracycline
• Which substance increases muscle wasting - Correct Answer Steroid usage 1 / 2

• Least sedating histamine blocker - Correct Answer Terfinadine
• Cross allergy b/w PCN - Correct Answer Carbapenems & Cephalosporins
• Beta blocker with the least respiratory effects - Correct Answer Metoprolol
• What anti-tumor rx work on the mitotic spindles - Correct Answer Vincristine & Vinblastine
• Why do you give EPI with local anesthetic - Correct Answer Vasoconstriction, to keep the local

anesthetic around longer

• What inhibits cyclooxygenase - Correct Answer ASA
• Precursor to PGE - Correct Answer Arachidonic acid
• What is rapid tolerance to a drug - Correct Answer Tachyphalaxis
• DOC for GP's - Correct Answer PEN G (IV)
• How to you force the excretion of an alkaline rx - Correct Answer Acidify the urine
• Rx given for urinary retention - Correct Answer Bethanachol
• What inhalation anesthetic causes hepatitis - Correct Answer Halothane
• DVT drug - Correct Answer Heparin
• What drug has side effects of gingival hyperplasia - Correct Answer Phenytoin
• What decreases gastric acid secretion best - Correct Answer Ranitidine
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