PTCB Test

A solution of 0.9% = 0.9 grams/100 mL. This translates to 9 grams/liter OR 9 mg/mL. (One quick trick is to just move the decimal over to the right by one digit, and memorize that it is g/L or mg/mL). Also, don't get stuck on extra information, such as the 250 mL, it is irrelevant in this question.

Tapentadol is often missed as a C-II. many people want to place it in a lower controlled substance class. So, do not make this mistake.

Remember, all beta-blockers end with olol. The exception is carvedilol, which uses an ilol (sorry, I did not do the naming). As a little bit of extra knowledge, carvedilol also has some alpha blocking activity, so maybe the fact that it is slightly different in the naming makes sense.

OBRA-90, as it is affectionately called is the Act that requires pharmacist to council (or at least the patient be offered pharmacist counseling).

Sublingual is under the tongue. A common example is nitroglycerin tablets.

Warfarin is one of the most common anticoagulants on the market. It is used to prevent blood clots in patients at risk of forming blood clots, which can dislodge from their location and cause life threatening injury.

Furosemide (Lasix), bumetanide (Bumex), and torsemide (Demadex) are your main loop diuretics. Loop diuretics are your most potent diuretics for pulling fluid out of the body through urination.

Keep vein open or KVO is used for IV infusions where the physician wants to keep the IV fluid running at a low rate to just keep the vein it is infusing into open (somewhere around 10-20 mL/hour).

AD does stand for right ear. AS is left ear, and AU is both ears. The A is latin for Auris or ear and the D is latin for dextra or right.

Beta-Blockers with the exception of carvedilol end with -olol, and -ilol is not that far off.

You will definitely learn more about HIPAA at any position you take in a pharmacy. Please take it seriously, because violating HIPAA is an offense for which you can be fired.

Quinolones or Fluoroquinolones often end in . . .floxacin. Other examples include ciprofloxacin, moxifloxacin, and gatifloxacin.

USP 797 is very important for medication sterile compounding. It details expectations for sterile compounding as well as beyond-use dates for finished products. Most states have adopted USP 797 as a requirement by law.

In addition to the DEA 222 form, a pharmacy may use CSOS to order their CII controlled substances. CSOS is basically an electronic DEA 222.

Scheduled II (CII) medications cannot have refills. This is covered in the Controlled Substance Act of 1970.

Abbreviations are a critical part of our job. If you ever have a doubt about what an abbreviation means, consult a pharmacist.

When it comes to concentration and percents, the higher the number the more concentrated it is.

A tablespoonful is 15 mL, so 4 x 15 mL=60 mL.

Although both drugs can interact with eachother, even more troublesome is that they can affect the disease states they each cover in a negative way. For instance, too much propranolol (used for heart rate control or high blood pressure) can cause breathing difficulty in someone with asthma (the condition that albuterol treats).

The FDA is the Food and Drug Administration.

When codeine is given alone it is a CII. When mixed in a tablet form with acetaminophen it is a CIII, and when in a cough syrup mixed with other ingredients in a dilute form it can be a CV.

Two tabs three times/day is 6 tabs/day. So, 60 tabs will last 10 days.

Nadolol is not a nausea treating medication. The other three are all nausea medications from different drug classes.

Since you only have 150 mg and each dose is 300 mg, you need 2 capsules per dose 4 times/day or 8 capsules per day. 8 x 14 = 112 capsules.

Rivaroxaban (Xarelto) is a new factor Xa inhibitor used to prevent clots after knee and hip replacement surgery.

Metronidazole (Flagyl) is an antibiotic used to treat mainly anaerobic infections.

Metoprolol succinate (Toprol XL) is a beta blocker used to treat hypertension and heart failure. Do not confuse the salt succinate with tartrate (which is Lopressor).

Furosemide (Lasix) is a loop diuretic used to remove excess fluid from the body.

Diphenoxylate/atropine (Lomotil) is used to treat diarrhea. It is very constipating and does not have a lot of abuse potential, and is therefore a Class V controlled substance.