Central Nervous System Drugs Flashcards
What Synaptic Transmission means?
The process of information transfer at a synapse
AEDs are:
portable electronic devices that analyze the heart’s rhythm and can provide defibrillation, an electrical
shock that may help the heart to re-establish an effective rhythm
A simple focal seizure is?
a simple motor or sensory phenomena with elementary symptoms and no loss of consciousness. They last less than a minute.
Partial seizures maybe confined to one side of the brain or?
May involve entire brain culminating in tonic clonic seizure.
What is Epilepsy?
A neurological disorder marked by sudden recurrent episodes of sensory disturbance, loss of consciousness, or convulsions
What is the mechanism of action of antiepileptic drugs?
antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) decrease membrane excitability by interacting with neurotransmitter receptors or ion channels.
It is most commonly prescribed anticonvulsant drug?
PHENYTOIN
What’s the use of CLONAZEPAM?
It is a treatment for absence, a typical absence seizure.
What does the Endogenous Analgesic System do?
it relieves pain by suppressing transmission of pain signals from peripheral nerves.
* nerve signals and morphine-like drugs activate the endogenous analgesia system (EAS).
Are there oral forms of neuromuscular blocking agents?
There are no oral form.
What are the indications of neuromuscular blocking drugs?
- relax skeletal muscles during surgery
-reduce intensity of muscle spams in drug-induced seizures
-manage patients who are fighting the use of ventilator to help with breathing.
what is the most commonly prescribed sedative-hypnotic drugs?
Benzodiazepines
What Benzodiazepines Adverse Effects?
Drawsiness, confusion, ataxia, weakness, dizziness, nystagmus, vertigo, headache, tremor and glassy eyed appearance.
Stimulates alpha-, beta1-, and beta2-adrenergic receptors resulting in relaxation of smooth muscle of the bronchial tree, cardiac stimulation (increasing myocardial oxygen consumption), and dilation of skeletal muscle vasculature; small doses can cause vasodilation via beta2-vascular receptors; large doses may produce constriction of skeletal and vascular smooth muscle Treatment of anesthesia-induced hypotension.
epinephrine
Both of this medication cautiously in clients with impaired liver and renal function disease. What are these?
Baclofen and diazepam
Results from maternal substance abuse during pregnancy consisting of any use of alcohol or drugs?
Abstinence Syndrome
Adjunct to maintain sobriety in treatment of alcohol use disorder
Disulfiram
What is therapeutic goal?
Therapeutic goal is to improve patient’s ability to carry out activities of daily life.
Parkinson’s Disease is?
a progressive neurodegenerative
condition caused by insufficient quantities of the neurotransmitter Dopamine in the brain, this deficiency causes motor and non-motor symptoms.
CNS STIMULANTS is?
analeptics-stimulate respiratory center of the brain and cardiovascular system
amphetamines-to treat children with ADHD
anorexiants-to suppress appetite
