Cardiovascular Drugs Flashcards
An irregular or faulty heartbeat
Dysrhythmia
Medications that increase urine output, causing the body to excrete more salt and water
Diuretics
What is another name for HMG COA?
Statins
A nutrition and oxygen distribution system
Cardiovascular System
A pathologic disease in which the heart fails to pump enough blood from the ventricles to meet metabolic demands.
Heart failure
Platelet activity without compromising platelet function
Hemorrheologic
Use the antidote Protamine sulfate.
Heparin
It is a weight that a muscle contracts against.
Afterload
an atherosclerotic precursor lesion generated from foam cells
Fatty streak
The ANS is in charge of this.
Heart Rate
a diuretic used to increase urine output in patients with acute renal failure
Mannitol
The circulatory system is made from of
Heart and Blood Vessels
This is in charge of supplying blood at high pressure to tissues.
Arteries
Pain worsens and happens more frequently during this early stage of increasing artery disease, sometimes even while the patient is at rest.
Unstable Angina
A medication that fastens conduction.
Positive dromotropic drugs
