A Patient with Chronic Bronchitis Who Has a New Prescription

question 38

Multiple Choice

A patient with chronic bronchitis who has a new prescription for Advair Diskus (combined fluticasone and salmeterol) asks the nurse the purpose of using two drugs. The nurse explains that

• A) one drug decreases inflammation, and the other is a bronchodilator.
• B) Advair is a combination of long-acting and slow-acting bronchodilators.
• C) the combination of two drugs works more quickly in an acute asthma attack.
• D) the two drugs work together to block the effects of histamine on the bronchioles.

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