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Question 1. What is the ideal management for scorpion bite?
Question 2. In acute anaphylaxis, you recommend IM adrenaline (epinephrine). Surely in such an acute situation intravenous adrenaline would be better?
Question 3. Why should patients avoid grapefruit juice if they are taking terfenadine?
Question 4. Many older drug therapies, e.g. penicillin in streptococcal sore throat, have never been submitted to rigorous trials such as a randomized controlled trial (RCT). Do you think they should be?
Question 5. Please explain why some drugs are teratogenic in the first trimester and some in the second?
Question 6. What is the difference between compliance and concordance?
Question 7. The rates of paracetamol (acetaminophen) self-poisoning have decreased in the UK. Why is this?
Question 8. Is N-acetylcysteine of any use in a case of paracetamol overdosage taken 16 hours previously?
Question 9. What is meant by primary end point and secondary end point?
Question 10. Can chronic exposure to organophosphorus compounds (in farmers) cause axonal radiculoneuropathy persisting for years? Is this disease reversible?