NSAIDS (Dr. Boston) Flashcards
NSAIDS general
Decrease pain, fever, inflammation
- Chronic Pain: Osteoarthritis
- Post operative pain
NSAIDS inhibit production of
Protaglandins (PG) from arachidonic acid cascade
- COX (cyclooxygenase) enzymes
Corticosteroids inhibit:
NSAIDs inhibit:
Corticosteroids inhibit: Phospholipase A
NSAIDS inhibit: Cyclooxygenase (COX)
Prostaglandin cascade from Membrane phospholipids
Membrane Phospholipids
=> broken down by Phospholipase A to…
Arachidonic Acid (AA)
=> broken down by COX to
Different prostaglandins
Traditional (nonselective) NSAIDS
- Aspirin
- Piroxicam
Cox-1 enzymes
(Constitutive Prostaglandins)
- Housekeeping
- Protective effect on gastric mucosa
- Platelet function
- Renal blood flow
*not related to cell damage, pain, etc
COX-2 enzymes
(Inducible Prostaglandins)
- Pain
- Inflammation
- Fever
COX-1, COX-2 ratios
Selective
Non-selective
Selective: Ratio > 1 = preference for COX-2
- Carprofen (Rimadyl)
- Meloxicam
- Deramaxx
- not injectible
- Onsior
- FDA approved for cats, good for post-op pain
- Previcox (Firocoxib)
- horses
Nonselective: Ratio
- Ketoprofen
When NOT to prescribe an NSAID
1. Renal dz
2. Liver dz
3. GI dz
4. Risk of bleeding or low BP in sx
5. On corticosteroids
6. Cushingoid
Renal blood flow
- PGs maintain renal blood flow in hypotension (COX-1 > COX-2)
- Pre-operative use of NSAIDS
- Selective NSAIDs
- IV fluid support
- Blood pressure monitoring and support
Platelets
Thromboxane
- Thromboxane
- involved in clotting
- product of arachidonica acid metabolilsm
- COX-1 inhibition => platelets can’t produce thromboxane for 2-3 days
- Ketoprofen
- Piroxicam
- Selective NSAIDs probs ok
- metacam
- rimadyl
Aspirin
- Acetylates the COX enzyme irreversibly
- Platelets unable to synthesize more COX for the lifetime of the platelet
* NO SURGERY FOR 7-10 days
Perioperative use of NSAIDS
- Non-selective NSAIDs NOT RECOMMENDED
- COX-2 selective NSAIDS
- Rimadyl and Meloxicam - injectible
- No documented effects
- renal function
- platelet function
- Pre-operatively for preemptive analgesia
- Admin 30-60 minutes prior to recovery
Prostacyclin
Cox-2 dependant prostaglandin
prevents clots from forming intravascularly
Selective NSAIDs knock this out and predispose to clots