FINAL DRUGS Flashcards
Example of a Hydantoin
phenytoin (Dilantin)
Example of a Iminostillbene drug
carbamazepine (Tegretol)
Ending of Iminostillbenes
-azepine
Anti-epileptic drug that causes bone marrow suppression, skin rash, liver toxicity, pancreatitis, and may be given with phenytoin or phenobarbital to increase levels of both meds.
Valproic Acid (Depakote)
Anti-epileptic drug that causes stevens-johnsons skin rash, bone marrow suppression, auto induction and takes more than 2 months to start therapeutic effects.
carbamazepine (Tegretol)
Anti-epileptic drug that can cause gingival hyperplasia, and must be diluted with normal saline in an IV and must be given slow.
phenytoin (Dilantin)
Drugs not to give with hemorrhagic stroke. Must be given within 3 hours of CVA.
Thrombolytic drugs
Anticholinesterase Drugs:
donepezil (Aricept)
rivastigmine (Exelon)
galantamine (Razadyne)
Drugs that treat Alzheimers Disease
Anticholinesterase Drugs
NMDA Receptor Antagonists [memantine (Namenda)]
Drugs that prevent cholinesterase (AChE) from breaking down acetylcholine (ACh) causing increased ACh.
Anticholinesterase Drugs
Drugs that inhibit the activity at NMDA receptors to slow disease process and decrease or stop cognitive degeneration.
NMDA Receptor Antagonists
Drugs that inhibit actions of MAO-B enzymes that break down dopamine resulting in increased dopamine.
Selective MAOI Therapy/ MAO-B Inhibitors
Drugs that cause the release of dopamine from storage in basal ganglia
Dopamine Modulators
Drugs that stimulates dopamine receptors to = the same effect as if dopamine had been bound.
Dopamine Receptor Agonists
The precursor of dopamine that crosses the blood brain barrier before it is broken down into dopamine which increases dopamine in the CNS
Levodopa
drugs that inhibit COMT enzymes from breaking down dopamine
COMT Inhibitors