Pharm Ch 7

Patients at risk for?after intravascular ROCM admin include those w preexisting renal compromise, diabetesw renal dysf

Signs and symptoms of ______ include fever, tachycardia, diaphoresis, agitation, nervousness, and emotional instability.

Even without immediate treatment, anaphylaxis is seldom fatal

Low-osmolality radiopaque contrast media can cause anti coagulation to occur.

ROCM are responsible for approx 10% of all ARF events and are the third most common cause of hospital-acquired

In oliguric ARF, urine output does not exceed what amount

bc of the serious effects thatoccur by injection of intravascular ROCM, imaging tech should use what 2 screening methods

What is the term for a heart rhythm disturbance characterized by electrical impulses without cardiac contraction?

High osmolality ROCM can cause some anticoagulation which can result in bleeding and bruising.

Radiopaque contrast media are responsible for approximately what percentage of all acute renal failure (ARF) events?

Decompensated thyrotoxicosis is a condition in which the body becomes unable to tolerate thyroid hormones.

What is PEA?

A ________ Is a sensory nerve cell activated by chemical stimuli

ROCM can lead to sickling of red blood cells as a result of osmotic fluid shifts in patients who have

______________ are used to improve delivery of ROM to small arteries that may be inaccessible otherwise.

Which of the following is not an agent used to protect the kidneys from ROCM-induced renal dysfunction?

An immediately lie threatening systemic hypersensitivity reaction is known as

Thyroid storm generally occurs in patients who have which of the following?

When vasovagal event occurs the patient becomes symptomatically hypertensive as a result of moderate-severe bradycardia

Intravascular administration of ROCM will cause a transient decrease in intravascular osmotic pressure.

Radiopaque contrast media do cross the placental barrier.

What is DSA?

ROCM cross __________ and should not be used in pregnant women unless benefits far exceed risks.

Which of the following can result from large amounts of barium sulfate being aspirated?

When a patients assessed before introduction of a ROCM it is vitally important to evaluate the medical history and ....?

what is ARF?

What is DSA?

Calcium chelation may be 1 pharmacodynamic mechanism which adverse heart rhythms, cardiac arrest, and sudden death occur

What is the term for an immediately life-threatening systemic hypersensitivity reaction?

The pharmacodynamic mechanisms for ROCM-induced AF are theorized to include which of the following?

To visualize vascular lumen with normal x-ray exposure, the blood iodine concentration must be within which range?

new agent for treating hypertensive emergencies, but's been used for prophylaxis against ROCM-induced renal dysfunction.

Acetylcysteine is available as a ________ or __________ respiratory nebulization solution and as an intravenous form.

What is the percentage of ARF cases after ROCM angiography?

bc of possible direct toxicity from O2 radicals resulting from admin of ROCM, investigators begun using ? to prevent ARF

Sometimes, ROCM do cause serious adverse effects.