Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards
An organ about the size of your fist that pumps blood through your body.
Heart
It transport oxygen-rich blood under high pressure to distribute to your body.
Arteries
A system that compose of blood, blood vessels and heart that helps to deliver oxygen, nutrients, and other essentials to cells and removes carbon dioxide and metabolic wastes from cells.
Circulatory System
A medication used to dilate or prevent constriction of the blood vessels, which allow greater blood flow to various organs in the body.
Vasodilators
Usually happens because the heart has become too weak or stiff that makes heart unable to pump blood around the body properly.
Heart Failure
A condition where there is a deviation in normal rhythm of the heart where it became abnormal or has irregular heartbeat
Dysrhythmia
A condition where blood pressure is higher than normal, which is the systolic pressure is greater than 140mmHg and/or a diastolic pressure of greater than 90mmHg.
Hypertension
A medication used to lower blood pressure and also a first line drug for angina, hypertension, supraventricular tachycardias; coronary spasms, migraine, Raynaud’s disease.
Calcium Channel Blocker
A medication that increase the force of myocardial contraction and as a result, they increase the stroke volume and thus, the cardiac output.
Positive Inotropic Drugs
A drug of choice for preventing kidney damage during acute kidney injury and reduction of intracranial pressure and cerebral edema.
Mannitol
A type of heart failure drugs that increase the force of myocardial contraction.
Positive Inotropic Drugs
A type of heart failure drugs that increase the rate in which the heart beats.
Positive Chronotropic Drugs
Used as topic anesthetic with added epinephrine to control bleeding in the area.
Lidocaine
What is the antidote for heparin toxicity?
Protamine Sulfate
Antidote for warfain toxicity
Vitamin K1
