Remember: All questions relate to your role in evaluating…
Remember: All questions relate to your role in evaluating and prescribing pharmacotherapeutics. 1. You are working in an outpatient pain center. Discuss the approach that you would be followed in providing therapy for a patient with chronic back pain. 2. Compare and contrast the use of atypical antipsychotic drug such as Clozapine (Clozaril) over classic antipsychotic agents (neuroleptics). 3. Prior to starting a patient on psychotropic medications, the patient should be evaluated for what type of health problem? What is your rationale for this? 4. Select one disease process and discuss how autonomic nervous system medications are used in the treatment of that disease. Include the mechanism of action, side effects and patient care issues that are important to consider in this treatment. Myocardial infarction, Arrhythmia, Angina, Glaucoma, Depression, Parkinson’s Disease. 5. Compare and contrast medications with CNS effects verses peripheral effects. What factors are related to the occurrence of CNS effects in a medication? Please provide specific names of medications in this discussion.