NSAIDs Flashcards
Define pharmacokinetics
What the body does to the drug
Define pharmacodynamics
What the drug does to the body
What is the therapeutic window of NSAIDs?
Narrow
What do NSAIDs block?
Prostaglandins
Where do NSAIDs act? (2)
- Periphery
- Spinal cord
Where do steroids act in the pathway? What is the negative of this?
At phospholipase, which is one stage higher than NSAIDs and you therefore get more side effects
Where do NSAIDs act in the pathway?
Cyclooxygenase
Name 5 things NSAIDs have been shown to inhibit in horses (7)
–Inflammation
–Fever
–Oedema
–‘Endotoxaemia’ (??)
–Ileus
–Adhesion formation
–(thrombosis formation)
Which NSAID can we use in inflammatory visceral disease in equine?
Flunexin
What can occur with poor IV administration of phenylbutazone?
Thrombophlebitis and necrosis
What must you do if you give a horse phenylbutazone?
Sign the horse passport out of the food chain
What should you do if you want to give phenylbutazone but there is no passport available?
Use meloxicam as this can go into food chain
Compared with opioids, what is NSAIDS:
A) Better for?
B) Less good for?
A) MSK Pain
B) Visceral pain
Name 2 reasons we would rather use NSAIDs than opioids in horses?
Side effects
Don’t want to dispense too many opioids (horse owners are dodge)
Name 7 pracitcal considerations when it comes to NSAID use (9)
- Non-scheduled (still POM-V)
- Cheaper vs opioids
- Effective per-os
- Little long-term decrease in efficacy
- Longer duration of action
- Side effects
- Compliance (owner)
- Cost
- Co-morbidities
Where are NSAIDs metabolised?
Liver
Where are NSAIDs excreted?
Kidneys
What is the protein binding of NSAID?
High
What is the volume of distribution of NSAIDs?
Low
What is the wash out period?
–If you want to change from one NSAIDs to another. There is advice to allow a number of half life wash out before we start the next one. May need bridging medication to tide them over e.g. adjuncts – paracetamol. Not currently done in horses.
What should you do if you have a problem with an NSAID?
Yellow form or online reporting to VMD
What is the “housekeeping” pathway?
Cox 1 - constitutive
What is the inflammatory pathway?
COX 2 - inducible