PEBC (Collaboration and Team Work) Sample Questions Set-7
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Question. A 75 year-old woman asks for your advice. She says she is allergic to cats and she would like to know if she could take something BEFORE she visits her granddaughter who owns a cat.
A) Recommend self care
B) Recommend Loratadine effective if taken 2 to 4 hour before exposure
C) Recommend diphenhydramine effective if taken 30 min before exposure
D) Recommend to avoid cat
E) None of the above
Answer: (b)
Question. A 44 year-old man, already taking fexofenadine once daily, asks you if there is something he could take to relieve his occasional bouts of night time congestion. His medical profile daily paroxetine to generalized anxiety. What would you recommend?
a) Recommend diphenhydramine
b) Recommend self care and nasal drops of xylometazoline
C) Recommend desloratadine
D) Recommend saline drops
E) Recommend dextromethorphan
Answer: (b)
Question. A 32 year-old woman suffers from seasonal allergic rhinitis. She asks for your advice because she can’t find relief despite the use of nasal oxymetazoline QD for the last three weeks. What is your opinion?
A) Ask her continue for another 3 days
B) Refer to doctor due rebound congestion
C) ask her to use saline drops
D) ask her to use desloratadine
E) Ask her to discontinue oxymetazoline
Answer: (b)
Question. A 28 year old woman tries to renew her nasal fluticasone prescription. She complains about the bad taste of the drug and asks if anything can be done about this? What is your opinion?
A) contact doctor to it seems oral thrush
B) suggest drinking glass of water after taking medication
C) suggest drinking glass of water after taking medication it this is not effective suggestive switch to other steroid triamcinolone
D) recommend to use spacer
E) Recommend to decrease dose
Answer: (c)
In these questions inclusive refer to the following:
DM is a 76-year-old woman who was recently seen at an outpatient clinic following a fall. She was given a bone mineral density scan and was found to have a T-score at the spine of -1.8 and at the hip of -2.6. The physician at the clinic gives her a prescription for alendronate 70 mg by mouth weekly, and she brings the prescription into the pharmacy. The pharmacist reviews DM's profile and sees that she is also taking simvastatin, lisinopril, lansoprazole, and calcium carbonate plus vitamin D. DM tells the pharmacist that she feels fine and does not understand why she should take this medication. She also asks if it is true that she has to stand up for 2 hours after she takes the alendronate. What should the pharmacist tell the patient?
Question. All of the following factors a pharmacist consider for her osteoporosis condition, EXCEPT
A) Cigarette smoking
B) Her obesity
C) Caucasian entity
D) Lots of alcohol
E) Lots of caffeine
Answer: (b)
Question. Which of the following laboratory test require initiating osteoporosis therapy, except
a) BMD Scan using DEXA machine
B) Portable ultrasound
C) X-ray
D) T score > -1
E) T score < -2.5
Answer: (d)
Question. What is true about bisphosphonates therapy in DM
A. Take alendronate in the morning with a full glass of water (~8 ounces) at least 30 minutes before eating, taking other medications, or drinking anything besides water
B. Change calcium supplements to calcium citrate, as DM using lansoprazole
C. T-score < -2.5 is diagnostic for having osteoporosis
D. Alendronate prevents bone loss, and should be taken in addition to the calcium and vitamin D
E. All are correct
Answer: (e)