Choose the single best response: Select the drug which can improve urinary flow rate in benign prostatic hypertrophy without affecting prostate size:

Choose the single best response: Select the drug which can impair carbohydrate tolerance in prediabetics but prolongs insulin hypoglycaemia:

Choose the single best response: A patient in shock comes to you in trauma ward. You examine him and decide not to give him vasoconstrictors. Which is the type of shock your patient is having?

Choose the single best response: Labetalol blocks:

Choose the single best response: Drug used for treatment of scorpion sting is:

Choose the single best response: Timolol is contraindicated in:

Choose the correct responses (multiple options may be right). Clonidine has the following attributes except:

Choose the correct responses (multiple options may be right). True about esmolol is:

Choose the correct responses (multiple options may be right). Selective β2-agonists include:

Assertion–Reason Question. Assertion: Phenylephrine produces mydriasis. Reason: It causes contraction of radial (dilator) muscle of iris via α1 stimulation.

Assertion–Reason Question. Assertion: Tamsulosin relieves urinary obstruction in benign prostatic hyperplasia. Reason: Tamsulosin does not significantly lower blood pressure.

Assertion–Reason Question. Assertion: Betaxolol is preferred in glaucoma patients who also have respiratory disease. Reason: Betaxolol relieves glaucoma by blocking α1-adrenergic receptors in the eye.

Assertion: Beta blockers reduce mortality in chronic heart failure Reason: They prevent catecholamine induced myocardial toxicity and remodelling. Choose the correct option.

Assertion: Propranolol worsens variant (Prinz metal’s) angina. Reason: Propranolol blocks β2-mediated coronary vasodilation, leaving unopposed α-mediated vasoconstriction and worsening coronary spasm. Choose the correct option.

Case scenario based MCQs Case: A 24-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 10 minutes after receiving an injection for fever. She suddenly develops difficulty in breathing, wheezing, swelling of lips and tongue, intense itching, dizziness, and a fall in blood pressure. Her pulse is feeble and rapid. She is suspected to be in anaphylactic shock. The drug of choice for the immediate management of this patient is:

Case scenario based MCQs Case: A 24-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 10 minutes after receiving an injection for fever. She suddenly develops difficulty in breathing, wheezing, swelling of lips and tongue, intense itching, dizziness, and a fall in blood pressure. Her pulse is feeble and rapid. She is suspected to be in anaphylactic shock. The preferred route of administration of this drug in this emergency is:

Case scenario based MCQs Case: A 24-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 10 minutes after receiving an injection for fever. She suddenly develops difficulty in breathing, wheezing, swelling of lips and tongue, intense itching, dizziness, and a fall in blood pressure. Her pulse is feeble and rapid. She is suspected to be in anaphylactic shock. The most important life-saving action of adrenaline in anaphylaxis is:

Case scenario based MCQs Case: A 24-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 10 minutes after receiving an injection for fever. She suddenly develops difficulty in breathing, wheezing, swelling of lips and tongue, intense itching, dizziness, and a fall in blood pressure. Her pulse is feeble and rapid. She is suspected to be in anaphylactic shock. Adrenaline produces bronchodilation mainly by stimulating:

Case scenario based MCQs Case: A 24-year-old woman is brought to the emergency department 10 minutes after receiving an injection for fever. She suddenly develops difficulty in breathing, wheezing, swelling of lips and tongue, intense itching, dizziness, and a fall in blood pressure. Her pulse is feeble and rapid. She is suspected to be in anaphylactic shock. After initial management, which class of drugs is commonly added to prevent a delayed reaction?