Pharmacology drugs used for pain, fever and inflammation

Match the following key terms

• Participates in inflammatory response

• Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID)

• Drugs that lower body temperature

• Prostaglandins

• inhibits synthesis of prostaglandins

• Antipyretic

• Phospholipid released to cell injury

• Tophi

• Uric acid crystals in the joints

• Arachidonic acid

Fever occurs when the set point of the hypothalamus is raised in response to the presence of pyrogen (fever-producing agents)

• True
• False

If a pathogen penetrates the skin barrier, which immune response would occur first?

• Mucus would be produced to prevent further infection.
• Antibodies would develop to make a vaccine.
• The temperature would increase at the infection site.
• Platelets would increase the flow of blood from the wound.

This sticky fluid traps any pathogens that try and get in our body

• Mucous Lining

• Blood

• Stomach Acid

• Skin

What is your body's 2nd line of defense? (a)  

• white blood cells

• red blood cells

• skin

Misuse and overuse of ​ (a)   can decimate natural populations of ​ (b)   in our bodies. When antibiotic treatment is stopped too soon, ​ (c)   bacterial are left behind. When they ​ (d)   , the bacterial population is more difficult to kill. This behavior drives the evolution of antibiotic resistance.

• antibiotics
• bacteria
• resistant
• reproduce

A client is taking large doses of acetylsalicylic acid for rheumatoid arthritis. Which assessment findings indicate that the client is experiencing ototoxicity as a result of the medication?

• Dizziness, sore throat, and purpura

• Gastrointestinal upset and dizziness

• Tinnitus, hearing loss, dizziness, and ataxia

• Gastrointestinal bleeding, ecchymosis, and dizziness

Match the following inflammation and immunity chemical mediators

• Protects against invading microbes

• Nitric oxide

• Prolongs vasodilation, cause pain

• Bradykinin

• Vasodilation and platelet aggregation

• Cytokines

• Produce inflammation and immune response

• Histamine

• In mast cells, causes vasodilation

• Platelet-activating factor

Which of the following is considered the body's first line of defense against pathogens?

• Skin

• White blood cells

• Antibodies

• Fever

Which of the following best describes the function of platelets in the immune response?

• They secrete mucus to trap microbes.

• They produce antibodies to fight pathogens.

• They help clot blood to prevent pathogen entry.

• They engulf and digest bacteria.