[Verified Answer]: Karter is a 14-year-old young lady who has…

Karter is a 14-year-old young lady who has presented with anxiety, weight loss, and mania-type symptoms. Dad brought her in today after some weird behavior at school. She tells you she feels like her “heart is going to fly out of her chest.” On exam, you notice exophthalmos, tachycardia (125 bpm), and tremors. Her thyroid gland is mildly enlarged, with a cyst-like nodularity on the right lobe. She weighs 95 pounds today and at her previous office visit 6 months ago she was 115 pounds. Laboratory studies are as follows: TSH is 0.3 mIU/mL (decreased), Free T4 is 6.8 mIU/mL (increased), and Total cholesterol is 135 mg/mL. Diagnosis: Primary hyperthyroidism Questions to Answer Please review the instructions in your assignment for information on how you are expected to organize your answers. 1. What medication did you choose from the category and why was it the best choice? What was the mechanism of action that made it a good choice for the patient? Provide a rationale that includes the guidelines you followed. Make sure your medication is written in script format. 2. Discuss specific patient education based on the prescribed therapy. Give 5-10 individual items that you are going to explain to the patient about the medication, goal of therapy, common side effects, lifestyle modifications, etc. 3. List a minimum of two MAJOR adverse reactions for the selected agent that would cause you to change therapy. 4. Describe three MAJOR drug–drug or drug–food interactions for the selected agent.