Question

multiple choice- choose one answer for each question

1) In which of the following scenarios would chemoprophylaxis be used for a patient

The patient roommate has meningitis

The patient is scheduled for foot surgery

The patient is going to have a colonoscopy

2) The thrombolytic drugs are used to:

Dissolve preformed clots

Prevent clots from forming

Synthesize fibrin

Enhance the clotting mechanism

Answer 1

1. Correct answer:- (a) The patient roommate has meningitis.
Explanation:- prophylaxis is preventive measures of a disease that can be used for disease which is infectious or transmitted to other person through any means.
- meningitidis is sich type of infection.
- foot surgery and colonoscopy are not under this criteria.

2. Correct answer:- (a) Dissolve preformed clots
Explanation:- Thrombolytic drugs are able to dissolve a preformed clot (thrombus).
- these drugs dissolve blood clots by activating plasminogen, which forms a cleaved product called plasmin.
- thrombolytic agents does not preven clots from forming.