A 22-year-old patient who weighs 62kg is admitted to hospita…

A 22-year-old patient who weighs 62kg is admitted to hospital after taking an overdose of propranolol tablets. She admits to taking 28 propranolol 40mg tablets. The patient is prescribed intravenous glucagon and given an initial bolus of 10mg over 10 minutes. Following the bolus, she is prescribed an intravenous infusion at a dose of 50microgram/kg/hour for 60 minutes. The glucagon solution used for the infusion is prepared at a concentration of 1mg/mL. How many milligrams of the glucagon will the patient receive in total Give your answer to ONE (1) decimal place.

Streptokinase reduces the rate of mortality associated with…

Streptokinase reduces the rate of mortality associated with myocardial infarction from 0.12 to 0.075.  What is the number needed to treat (NNT) for streptokinase to prevent one death from stroke?  ARC = the absolute risk of events in the control group ART = the absolute risk of events in the treatment group ARR (absolute risk reduction) = ARC – ART RRR (relative risk reduction) = (ARC – ART) / ARC  NNT (number needed to treat) = 1 / ARR 

Recently published data shows that the prevalence of asthma…

Recently published data shows that the prevalence of asthma in patients over 18-years-old is 1 in 20 and the prevalence of COPD in patients over 18-years-old is 1 in 32. Your surgery has 8,000 registered patients over the age of 18 years.   How many more patients aged over 18 would you expect to have asthma compared to the number who have COPD?

You are a foundation trainee who is running an event on salt…

You are a foundation trainee who is running an event on salt content of OTC medicines. Co-codamol 8mg/500mg soluble tablets contain 19.1mmol of Na+ per tablet. The maximum recommended daily allowance (RDA) of salt for an adult is 6g (2.4g of sodium) per day. The atomic mass of sodium is 23. If an adult patient took two co-codamol soluble tablets, what percentage of their maximum recommended daily salt allowance would they have consumed? Round your answer to the nearest whole number.