SOLUTIONS TO EXERCISES, LESSON 4
1.
An ingested poison is a substance which may cause serious illness or death when
introduced into the body. (para 4-1b)
2.
Acute poisoning is the condition brought on by taking an overdose of poison at one
time. (para 4-1b)
3.
You are correct if you listed any three of the following ways to remove poison from
the body:
Give Syrup of Ipecac.
Administer Apomorphine Hydrochloride.
Absorption.
Gastric lavage.
Dilution.
Demulcent.
Give a specific systemic antidote.
Elimination.
Diuresis.
Give a cathartic.
Dialysis. (para 4-5a through j)
4.
Giving him Syrup of Ipecac.
(para 4-6c(2))
5.
Staphylococcal.
(para 4-8a)
6.
You are correct if you listed any two of the following:
The Physicians' Desk Reference.
The Merck Index.
The Handbook of Poisoning.
The Clinical Toxicology of Commerical Products.
(para 4-9b)
7.
To give a good emetic drug so that the patient will vomit.
(para 4-5a)
8.
The patient to vomit in five to ten minutes. (para 4-5a(2))
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