CHAPTER 11: DRUGS FOR MENTAL HEALTH
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The healthcare provider is considering prescribing a drug for a patient with insomnia. Which drug category is helpful in promoting sleep among patients with insomnia?
sedatives
You are preparing to give the benzodiazepine Valium to a patient as a premedication before surgery. The patient asks you how this drug works. What is your best response?
“This drug works by binding to receptors acting with GABA to induce sleep.”
You are caring for a patient in the clinic setting who has been taking a benzodiazepine alprazolam (Xanax) for anxiety. What potential problem should you observe this patient for?
Dependence
The family of a patient who has been brought to the emergency room suspects the patient took an accidental overdose of Which drug would you anticipate will be given to a patient who experienced an overdose of a benzodiazepine?
Flumazenil
For which patient would benzodiazepines be contraindicated?
A woman who is 20 weeks pregnant