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Pharmacology and the Nursing Process 7th Edition by Linda Lane Lilley, Shelly Rainforth Collins, Julie S. Snyder

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0323087896
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Pharmacology and the Nursing Process 7th Edition by Linda Lane Lilley, Shelly Rainforth Collins, Julie S. Snyder

Edition 7ISBN: 978-0323087896
Exercise 12
A patient with Parkinson's disease will start taking enta- capone (Comtan) along with the carbidopa-levodopa (Sinemet) he has been taking for a few years. The nurse rec- ognizes that the advantage of taking entacapone is that
A)the entacapone can reduce on-off effects.
B)the levodopa may be stopped in a few days.
C)there is less GI upset with entacapone.
D)it does not cause the cheese effect.
Explanation
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Thus, the option (b) is incorrect.
The d...

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