Medication Polarity
NPTE Clinical Files | Physical Therapy
Kyle Rice
4.9 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Niamh is a 22-year-old patient with a previous forearm laceration presenting with a raised scar that is tender to touch. The therapist would like to use iontophoresis with the appropriate parameters. Which of the following is the MOST recommended for this patient:
A. Dexamethosone with positive polarity
B. Acetic Acid with negative polarity
C. Dexamethosone with negative polarity
D. Acetic Acid with positive polarity
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Kyle Rice, awful test taker turned physical therapists and standardized test coach for over 5,000 physical therapists worldwide. |
| 0:09.0 | It wasn't that long ago that I struggle with anxiety, lack of confidence, and the fear of failing the NPTE. |
| 0:16.0 | Fast forward through the challenges, the 13 standardized test failures, and many lessons learn. And you'll see the life I |
| 0:22.5 | have today, a life filled with love, financial freedom, and a dream job that allows me to change |
| 0:28.2 | lives every single day. I created the NPTE Clinical Files podcast to give you simple, |
| 0:34.3 | actionable strategies, along with a step-by-step walkthrough of NPTE-based questions. |
| 0:40.5 | All of this so that you can dominate your exam like I did and achieve your dream. |
| 0:45.5 | So if you're a driven PT student who's looking to pass the NPTE and start creating a life |
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| 0:53.1 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:55.9 | For this week's clinical file, we have Nimvee, and Nimvi is a 22-year-old patient with a previous forearm laceration |
| 1:03.4 | presenting with a raised scar that is tender to touch. The therapist would like to use |
| 1:09.7 | iontopheresis with the appropriate parameters, |
| 1:13.3 | which of the following is the most recommended for this patient? All right. So we have A, |
| 1:19.0 | dexamethyzone with a positive polarity. B, acetic acid with a negative polarity. C, dexamethosone |
| 1:27.4 | with a negative polarity and C, dexamethosone with a negative polarity, and D is acetic acid with a positive |
| 1:32.8 | polarity. All right. So let's go up to the top of this question. Last week, I also did more of that |
| 1:39.3 | non-systems. I wanted to throw this one in here because Ionto questions can easily come up and you got to |
| 1:45.7 | understand the medications. You got to understand the polarity of the medications as well. So definitely |
| 1:51.8 | make sure you review this before you take the exam. All right, let's go up to the top. Nimvi is a |
| 1:57.4 | 22 year old patient with a previous forearm laceration and is presenting with a raised scar |
| 2:05.7 | that's tender to touch. Okay, let's stop there. So we got a forearm laceration. Now they have a raised |
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