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Compared with normal persons, the dosage regimen of a drug for a patient known to be a rapid metabolizer, is modifed by most rationally by which of the following loading and maintenance doses


Loading Maintenance

A. Increase Increase
B. Increase Normal
C. Decrease Normal
D. Normal Decrease
E. Normal Increase

  #2

answer -e(normal, increase)

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  #3

yes it's "E"

  #4

How about the same question, with a twist:

Compared with normal persons, the dosage regimen of a drug that distributes in all body compartments for an OBESE patient , is modifed by most rationally by which of the following loading and maintenance doses

Loading Maintenance

A. Increase Increase
B. Increase Normal
C. Decrease Normal
D. Normal Decrease
E. Normal Increase

  #5

answer-a

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