KROK 1 Stomatology 2016 – Question 136 · KROK (Dentistry)
For pain relief a patient has taken simultaneously a tablet of paracetamol and a tablet of diclofenac sodium. What type of drug interaction did the patient use for self-treatment?
- A. Synergic antagonism
- B. Potentiated synergism
- C. Competitive antagonism
- D. Additive synergism
- E. Non-competitive antagonism
Hint
Both drugs act in the same direction (analgesia); ask whether their joint effect is roughly the sum of each effect or clearly larger than that sum.
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