BZD Flashcards
Short acting bzd for favorable asa hypnotic than sedative drug
Triazolam
Use for anxiety and more toxic in overdose than other bzd
Alprazolam
Drugs for epilepticus
Lorazepam
Diazepam
Bzd drug for seizures
Clonazepam
⚬ muscular disorders,old first-line tmt for status epilepticus
Diazepam
Aka nordiazepam
Desmethydiazepam
• ↓REM sleep
Zolpidem
Newer gen of sedative and hypnotic drug with a Short half life and ↓latency of sleep onset
Zaleplon
a hypnotic drug which ↑sleep time, stage 2 NREM sleep
ESZOPICLONE
non-24hour sleep-wake disorder
Tasimelteon
Concurrent use with fluvoxamine increases the peak plasma conc of ramelteon over 50-fold
RAMELTEON
relieves anxiety without causing marked sedative, hypnotic, or euphoric effects
BUSPIRONE
Medical term of pins and needes
Paresthesias
Bzd drug for amnesia with a duration of action of 3-8hrs
Midazolam
Intermediate acting Bzd drug for insomia
Temazepam
Long acting bzd which administered indecreasing doses to px with withdrawal
Chlordiazepoxide
Date rape drug
Flunitrazepam
Knock out drops
Mickey finn
active metabolite of chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, prazepam, and clorazepate
Desmethyldiazepam
structurally unrelated to benzodiazepines, share a similar mechanism of action
ZOLPIDEM
slow-onset anxiolytic agent
BUSPIRONE
may take 3-4weeks to develop anxiolytic effects
Not for acute anxiety
BUSPIRONE
2 bzd blokers
Flumazenil,
B-carbolines
Has a a/e of paradoxical reactions
Bzd blokers ( flumazenil, B-carbolines)
In the tmt of GAD and phobias
Bzd
increase in the frequency of channel-opening events
Benzodiazepines
do not substitute for GABA but appear to enhance GABA’s effects allosterically without directly activating GABA-A receptors
Benzodiazepines