CPSP IMM Medicine MCQs

Therapeutic index is a measure comparing toxic and effective doses and indicating a drug safety margin.

Loading dose is an initial larger dose used to achieve a target concentration rapidly.

ACE inhibitor is a drug class that reduces angiotensin II formation and may cause cough or hyperkalaemia.

Beta blocker is a drug class that antagonises beta-adrenergic receptors and can reduce heart rate.

Proton-pump inhibitor is a drug that irreversibly suppresses the gastric hydrogen-potassium ATPase.

Naloxone is a competitive opioid receptor antagonist used to reverse opioid toxicity.

Atropine is a muscarinic receptor antagonist that can increase heart rate and reduce secretions.

Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated host response to infection.

Acute coronary syndrome is a clinical spectrum caused by acute myocardial ischaemia, including unstable angina and myocardial infarction.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic systemic autoimmune inflammatory arthritis typically affecting small joints symmetrically.

Heart failure is a syndrome in which the heart cannot meet metabolic demands or does so only at elevated filling pressures.

Atrial fibrillation is a supraventricular arrhythmia with disorganised atrial activity and an irregularly irregular pulse.