Anesthesia
Pharmacology: Gastrointestinal Pharmacology Practice Questions
Choose the correct answer for each question.
Bismuth subsalicylate:
- Prevention and treatment of "travelers diarrhea."
- Effective as an antidiarrheal in episodic diarrhea unrelated to travel.
- Both
- Neither
Effect(s) associated with bismuth:
- Antimicrobial effects
- Anti-inflammatory effects
- Both
- neither
Bismuth appears to have anti-secretory effects.
- True
- False
Bismuth is effective in relieving which one(s) of the following?
- Nausea
- Abdominal cramping
- Both
- Neither
Associated with bismuth administration:
- Dark stools
- Black staining of the tongue.
- Both
- Neither
Bismuth salicylate:
- Salicylate absorbed by small intestine and stomach
- Bismuth mostly (99%) passes as the parent compound on absorbed into the feces.
- Both
- Neither
Bismuth salicylate side effect(s):
- Reye syndrome warning
- CNS Side effects
- Tinnitus
- Hearing loss
- A & B
- B & C
- A, B & C
- A, B, C & D (all answers are correct)
Probiotics may be effective in:
- Antibiotic-associated diarrhea
- Infectious diarrhea
- Both
- Neither
Bacteria effective in treating antibiotic-associated diarrhea, infectious diarrhea and in some acute diarrheal presentations:
- Lactobacillus GG
- Saccharomyces boulardii
- Both
- Neither