MACE Medication Assistant Exam Prep

Category - Pharmacological

You find a prescription bottle in the garbage. When you check the contents, you find 30 yellow pills shaped like an hourglass. What are the most likely contents of the bottle?
  1. Maxzide (a combination of triamterene and HCTZ)
  2. Zocor (Simvastatin)
  3. Tylenol
  4. Topamax Sprinkle (Topiramate)
Explanation
Answer: A Maxzide comes in two doses (37.5/25 and 75/50). The 75/50 is yellow and both tablets are hour-glass shaped. Zocor comes in 5 doses-5, 10, 20, 40, and 80 mg. All but the 80 mg dose are shaped like shields. Viagra comes in 3 doses (25, 50, 100 mg) and is diamond-shaped. Topamax Sprinkles is a capsule.
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