Your Patient, a Known Alcoholic, Has Developed a Cardiac Arrhythmia

Multiple Choice

Your patient, a known alcoholic, has developed a cardiac arrhythmia that you intend to treat with synchronized cardioversion. Because he is awake, you decide to administer diazepam to ease this experience. However, you find that to induce the desired state you must administer more than twice the normal dose of diazepam. This condition is known as:

A) cumulative effect.
B) cross tolerance.
C) tachyphylaxis.
D) idiosyncrasy.