Autonomic Nervous System Drugs

Question 1

What drugs stimulate the PNS?

Answer 1

Parasympathomimetics are a class of medications that activate the parasympathetic nervous system by mimicking or modifying the effects of acetylcholine.

Question 2

Drugs that stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system are called cholinergic agonists?

Answer 2

Cholinergic agonists

Question 3

What are the other names for Adrenergic drugs?

Answer 3

Adrenergic agonists & Sympathomimetics (because they mimic the SNS)

Question 4

what is nicotine?

Answer 4

Alkaloid drug in tobacco that stimulates ganglionic receptors.

Question 5

What neurotransmitter regulates ganglionic transmission?

Answer 5

Acetylcholine

Question 6

controls voluntary muscles such as skeletal muscles?

Answer 6

somatic nervous system

Question 7

It controls involuntary actions; smooth muscle, heart, glands?

Answer 7

autonomic nervous system

Question 8

agonists drugs that stimulate the PNS?

Answer 8

muscarinic
nicotinic
dopaminergic

Question 8

agonists drugs that stimulate the PNS?

Answer 8

muscarinic
nicotinic
dopaminergic

Question 9

What increase peristalsis and secretions
Increases peristalsis and motility
Relaxes the sphincter muscles?

Answer 9

GI

Question 10

Increases the tone of the ureter
Relaxes the sphincter muscles
Stimulates urination?

Answer 10

GU

Question 11

What is “Fight or Flight” means?

Answer 11

SNS increases heart rate & BP, bronchodilation, blood shunted to skeletal muscle, mydriasis (pupil dilation), increase glucose available to blood, increase epinephrine

Question 12

Receive parasympathetic information?

Answer 12

Cholinergic Receptors

Question 13

What is the impact of a drug?

Answer 13

The impact of a drug on a neuronally regulated process is dependent on the ability of that drug to directly or indirectly influence receptor activity on target cells

Question 14

What are the Steps in Synaptic Transmission?

Answer 14

1. Transmitter synthesis
2. Transmitter storage
3. Transmitter release
4. Receptor binding
5. Termination of transmission

Question 15

A chemical that is released from a nerve cell which thereby transmits an impulse from a nerve cell to another nerve, muscle, organ, or other tissue?

Answer 15

Neurotransmitter

Question 16

What is Neuropharmacology?

Answer 16

the study of drugs that alter processes controlled by the nervous system

Question 17

Define the nursing process.

Answer 17

a systematic problem solving approach toward providing individualized nursing care.

Question 18

What Parasympathetic Nervous System means?

Answer 18

The parasympathetic nervous system is one of the two main divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Its general function is to control homeostasis and the body’s rest-and-digest response.

Question 19

What is the Function of the Parasympathetic Nervous System?

Answer 19

Control the body’s response while at rest.