CARDIOVASCULAR DRUGS Flashcards
It delivers oxygen, nutrients, hormones, electrolytes, and other essential cells and removal of carbon dioxide and metabolic waste from cells.
Circulatory System
It transports blood under high pressure to tissues.
Arteries
It collects blood from capillaries
Venules
Amount of tension (stretch) applied to a muscle before transaction to a muscle before contraction.
PRELOAD
Defined as a persistent systolic pressure of greater than 140 mmHg. and or diastolic pressure of greater than 90mmHg.
Hypertension
It is determined by the product of cardiac output and systemic vascular resistance.
Blood pressure
Drugs that accelerate the rate of urine formation that results to the removal of sodium and water from the body.
DIURETICS
Acts on the brain by decreasing NE production.
Central Acting
Treatment of Glaucoma, Edema, and high-altitude sickness.
Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors
It is drug allergy, severe renal disease, pulmonary edema, active intracranial bleeding.
DIURETIC OSMOTIC