Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards
Defined as a persistent systolic pressure of greater than 140mmHg and/or a diastolic pressure of greater than 90mmHg
Hypertension
It is the resistance to blood flow that is determined by the diameter of the blood vessels and vascular musculature
Systemic Vascular Resistance
What are the three drugs that affect heart rate and contractability?
Beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, centrally acting adrenergics
What are the drugs that affect circulating volume, such as salt and aldosterone?
ACE inhibitors and diuretics
What drugs do affect hormones, such as vasodilators and vasconstrictors?
Vasodilators, prostaglandins, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, angiotensin II blockers
What are the general anti-hypertensive drugs?
Diuretics, adrenergic drugs, direct vasodilators, ACE inhibitors, calcium channel blockers, direct renin inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers
These are the drugs that accelerate the rate of urine formation that results to the removal of sodium and
water from the body
Diuretics
What are the two types of adrenergic drugs?
Central acting and peripheral acting
What kind of antihypertensive drug are these: losartan, eprosartan, valsartan, irbisartan, olmesartan, telmisartan?
ARB/Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers
What are the three types of calcium channel blocker?
Phenylalkylamine, benzothiazepines, dihydropyridines
What nursing responsibility should be done in administering adrenergic antagonists due to first dose syncope?
Patient should remain supine for the first dose and given at night time
What are the three types of angina?
Chronic stable, unstable, vasospastic
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
Anti-anginal drugs
What are the types of anti-anginal drugs?
Nitrates, nitrites, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers
These mainstay prophylaxis and treatment for angina
Nitrates and nitrites
These are the most effective treatment of exertional angina and approved for treatment of MI, hypertension, cardiac dysrhythmias, and essential tremor
Beta-blockers
What will be the nursing responsibility in administering nitrates?
Monitor for chest pain before, during, and after therapy
It is a pathologic state in which the heart is
unable to pump in sufficient amounts
from the ventricles to meet metabolic
needs
Heart failure
What are the types of heart failure drugs?
Positive inotropic, positive chronotropic, positive dromotropic
Digoxin is what type of heart failure drugs?
Cardiac glycosides
