KROK 1 2007 – Question 146 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient who has been treated with diazepam on account of neurosis complains of toothache. Doctor administered him an analgetic, but its dose was lower than average therapeutic dose. What phenomenon did the doctor take into account while prescribing the patient an underdose?
- A. Tolerance
- B. Potentiation
- C. Cumulation
- D. Summation
- E. Drug dependence
Hint
Ask yourself what happens to the effect of a painkiller when a sedative-anxiolytic that has no analgesic action of its own is taken together with it.
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