KROK 1 2015 – Question 105 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
During introduction of local anesthesia a patient has gone into anaphylactic shock. What drug must be administered to the patient?
- A. Atropine sulfate
- B. Epinephrine hydrochloride
- C. Diazepam
- D. Nitroglycerin
- E. Propranolol
Hint
Anaphylaxis threatens life through hypotension and bronchospasm, so think of the drug whose receptor effects reverse both vascular collapse and airway narrowing.
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