Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards
What is Circulatory System?
Delivery oxygen, nutrients hormones, electrolytes and other essentials to cells and removal of carbon dioxide and metabolic wastes.
What are the two organs composed of circulatory system?
Heart and vessels
What is blood pressure?
To determine by the product cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance.
What are the goals for Antihypertensive Therapy?
To achieve blood pressure of less than 140/90 mmHg and for the patients with hypertension and diabetes less than 130/90 mmHg.
Drugs that accelerate the rate of urine formation that results to the removal of sodium and water from the body.
Diuretics
What is the indications of Diuretics Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors?
Treatment of Glaucoma, Edema and High Altitude sickness.
What are the indications of Angiotensin- Converting Enzyme Inhibitors?
- Hypertension
- Adjust for Heart Failure
- Stop progression of LVH
What are the MOA of CCB’s?
Blocks calcium from the excitation-contraction coupling process in heart and vascular smooth muscle cells resulting to vasodilation, decreases afterload, depression of conduction through SA and AV nodes.
The AV node conducts impulses to the ventricles at a 2:1, 3:1 , 4:1 or greater ratio (rarely 1:1) and the degree of AV block may be consistent or variable.
Atrial Flutter
Rapid, erratic electrical discharge comes from multiple atrial ectopic foci
Atrial Fibrillation
What are the types of stable Angina and each definition?
- Chronic Stable Angina - intense but subsides within 15 minutes of rest or medication and caused mainly by atherosclerosis and can be triggered by exertion or stress and exacerbated by smoking, alcohol, coffee and some drugs.
- Unstable Angina - early stage of progressive artery disease characterized by pain increasing in severity and frequency and may even occur at rest
- Vasospastic Angina - from spasms of the smooth muscle that surrounds the coronary arteries and occurs at rest without any triggers but usually occuring at the same time of day.
Pathologic state in which the heart is unable to pump to pump in sufficient amounts from the ventricles to meet metabolic needs.
Heart Failure
What is the meaning of W in AW HEAD in Right-sided Heart Failure?
Weight Gain
In Left-sided Heart Failure, what is A from DO CHOP?
Adventitious Breath Sounds
What number of class in AHA’S HF Classification this symptoms: slight limitation of physical activity, Comfortable at rest, Ordinary physical activity results in fatigue, palpitation, dyspnea or shortness of breath.
Class II
