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Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards

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Defined as a persistent systolic pressure of greater than 140mmHg and/or a diastolic pressure of greater than 90mmHg

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Hypertension

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It is the resistance to blood flow that is determined by the diameter of the blood vessels and vascular musculature

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Systemic Vascular Resistance

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What are the three drugs that affect heart rate and contractability?

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Beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, centrally acting adrenergics

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What are the drugs that affect circulating volume, such as salt and aldosterone?

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ACE inhibitors and diuretics

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What drugs do affect hormones, such as vasodilators and vasconstrictors?

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Vasodilators, prostaglandins, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin II blockers

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What are the general anti-hypertensive drugs?

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Diuretics, adrenergic drugs, direct vasodilators, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, direct renin inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers

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These are the drugs that accelerate the rate of urine formation that results to the removal of sodium and
water from the body

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Diuretics

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What are the two types of adrenergic drugs?

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Central acting and peripheral acting

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What kind of antihypertensive drug are these: losartan, eprosartan, valsartan, irbisartan, olmesartan, telmisartan?

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ARB/Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers

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What are the three types of calcium channel blocker?

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Phenylalkylamine, benzothiazepines, dihydropyridines

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What nursing responsibility should be done in administering adrenergic antagonists due to first dose syncope?

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Patient should remain supine for the first dose and given at night time

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What are the three types of angina?

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Chronic stable, unstable, vasospastic

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These drugs minimize frequency of attacks and decrease intensity of pain, improve functional capacity with few adverse effects, prevent or delay the worst possible outcome, MI

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Anti-anginal drugs

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What are the types of anti-anginal drugs?

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Nitrates, nitrites, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers

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These mainstay prophylaxis and treatment for angina

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Nitrates and nitrites

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These are the most effective treatment of exertional angina and approved for treatment of MI, hypertension, cardiac dysrhythmias, and essential tremor

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Beta-blockers

17
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What will be the nursing responsibility in administering nitrates?

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Monitor for chest pain before, during, and after therapy

18
Q

It is a pathologic state in which the heart is
unable to pump in sufficient amounts
from the ventricles to meet metabolic
needs

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Heart failure

19
Q

What are the types of heart failure drugs?

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Positive inotropic, positive chronotropic, positive dromotropic

20
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Digoxin is what type of heart failure drugs?

A

Cardiac glycosides

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