NCLEX RN Practice Question # 885

NCLEX EXamination.

Practice Question # 885.

 

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Isoniazid Introduction:

Indications: Treatment of tuberculosis as part of combination therapy; prophylactic treatment of household members of recently diagnosed tuberculars.

 

Actions: Interferes with lipid and nucleic acid synthesis in actively growing tubercle bacilli.

Adverse effects: Peripheral neuropathies, nausea, vomiting, hepatitis, bone marrow suppression, fever, local irritation at injection sites, gynecomastia, lupus syndrome.

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