KROK 1 2018 – Question 192 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient was prescribed atropine sulfate to treat intestinal colic. What concomitant disease can be a contraindication for this drug?
- A. Sinus bradycardia
- B. Hypotension
- C. Glaucoma
- D. Vertigo
- E. Bronchial asthma
Hint
Work out what muscarinic blockade does in each organ system, then choose the comorbidity that the resulting effect would aggravate.
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