Calcium Channel Blockers Flashcards
- are like valium to your heart
- they relax and slow down the heart
- have negative inotropic, chronotropic, dromotropic effects on the heart
Calcium Channel Blockers
What is the effects of
(+) POSITIVE
Inotropy,
Chronotropy,
Dromotropy
Positive Inotropy: increase cardiac contractile force -> ventricles empty more completely -> cardiac output improved
Positive chronotrophy: increase rate of impulse formation at SA node -> accelerate heart rate
Positive dromotropy: increase speed that impulses from SA node travel to AV node (increase conduction velocity)
What is the effects of
(-) NEGATIVE
Inotropy,
Chronotropy,
Dromotropy
Specially Of Calcium Channel Blockers (CCBs)
Negative inotropy: weaken/decrease the force of myocardial contraction
Negative chronotropy: decrease rate of impulse formation at the SA node -> decelerte heart rate
Negative dromotropy: decrease speed that impulses from SA node travel to AV node (decrease conduction velocity)
When do you want to relax and slow down the heart?
To treat A, AA, AAA
- Antihypertensive (blood vessel dilation)
- AntiAnginal drugs (decreasing oxygen demand, relaxes the heart)
- AntiAtrialArrhyhmia (A flutter, Afib, PACs, Atach, A bigeminy, SVT-originates in atria)
What are side effects of CCBs
Headache and vasodilation
Name CCBs
- name ends in (-dipine)… NOT “pine”
- also Verapamil, Cardizem (diltiazem)
*Cardizem (diltiazem) is given continous IV drip
What are parameters to assess before putting a pt on CCBs?
- Assess for BP
- Hold if SBP is <100
What do you call the rhythm where
• There is a P wave, followed by a QRS, followed be a T wave for every complex
• Peaks of the P wave is equally distant to the QRS, and fall within 5 small boxes
Normal Sinus Rhythm
It is a heart rhythm with no patterm
Ventricular Fibrillation
It is a heart rhythm with sharp peaks with a pattern
Ventricular Tachycardia
Flat Line
Asystole
What to do in asystole
- Start CCPR
- Epi then Athropine
*non shockable rhythm
If a question mentions QRS depolarization, it is ____________
Ventricular
If a question mentions P wave, it is ____________
Atrial
What are the 6 rhythms most commonly tested on NCLEX
- A lack of QRS complexes is asystole—a flat line
- P waves (atrial) in the form of saw tooth wave = atrial flutter
- Chaotic P wave patterns = atrial fibrillation (a-fib)
(Chaotic: word used to describe fibrillation) - Chaotic QRS complexes = ventricular fibrillation (v-fib)
- Bizarre QRS complexes = ventricular tachycardia (v-tach)
(Bizarre: word used to describe tachycardia) - Periodic wide bizarre QRS complexes = PVCs (Salvos of PVCs = A short runs of v-tach)