Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards
Medications that hasten the production of urine, which causes the body to excrete sodium and water, are used to treat various conditions.
Diuretics
This is the common name of compounds used to treat different heart disorders (such as congestive heart failure, angina, or arrhythmia) or diseases of the vascular system (e.g., hypertension).
Cardiovascular Drugs
What are the three types of Angina?
Chronic Stable Angina
Unstable Angina
Vasospastic Angina
Coagulation Modifiers:
Anti-coagulants
Antiplatelet
Hemorheological
Thrombolytic
Anti-fibrinolytic
It is a rapid-acting sublingual tablets or IV .
Acute Attacks
This early stage of progressive artery disease is characterized by pain increasing in severity and frequency and may even occur at rest.
Unstable Angina
HMG COA is also called?
Statins
These are anti-anginal drugs that mainstay prophylaxis and treatment for angina and have MOA that dilates all blood vessels via relaxation of smooth muscles and coronary arteries.
Nitrates and Nitrites
Load that against which a muscle exerts its force arterial pressure that the left ventricle overcomes to eject blood.
Afterload
It is an altered platelet function without preventing the platelets from working.
Hemorrheologic
A pathologic state in which the heart is unable to pump in sufficient amounts from the ventricles to meet metabolic needs.
Heart failure
This inhibits the action or formation of clotting
factors and prevents clots from forming.
Anti-coagulants
The circulatory system is composed of the?
Heart and Blood Vessels
Kind of diuretic that used to force urine production in people with acute kidney failure.
Mannitol
The determinants of cardiac output are?
Heart rate
Stroke volume
Preload
Afterload
