Opiods Flashcards
Pain
Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience with actual or potential tissue damage
Nociceptors (pain receptors)
Free nerve ending with cells bodies outside the SC —> certain threshold reached before signal triggered —> threshold reached and signal passes along axon into the SC
What sense pain/ primary target of opioids!
Dorsal root ganglion
Opioid receptors and natural pain chemicals
Mu (MOP) receptors- endorphins
Kappa (KOP)- dynorphin
Delta (DOP)- encephalin
Opioid receptor locations
MOP and KOP- brain, SC and peripheral sensory neurons
DOP- brain and peripheral sensory neurons
Major effect of opioids receptors
Analgesia (spinal and supraspinal)
MOP effects
Respiratory depression
Decreased GI motility, biliary secretions, urine voiding reflex, uterine contractions
Increased appetite
Euphoria
Antidiuresis
Miosis/ mydriasis
Nausea/ vomiting
Immunimodulation
KOP receptor major effects
Decreased GI motility
Increased appetite
Sedation
Diuresis (increased ADH release)
Miosis / mydriasis
DOP receptor major effects
Increased appetite
Immunomodulation
Opioids MOA
Opioids bind to spinal and supraspinal receptors —> inhibit adenylyl cyclase (decrease CAMP) —> activation of K+ ion channels and hyperpolarization —> inhibits excitatory NT release
Opioid therapeutic uses
Analgesia
Sedation
Calming and euphoria
Diarrhea, decreased GI motility
Induction and maintenance of anesthesia
Agonist opioids
Morphine
Methadone
Hydromorphone
Fentanyl
Tramadol
Mixed agonist/ antagonist opioids
Butorphanol
Buprenorphine
Antagonist/ reversal of opioids
Naloxone
Morphine PE
Analgesia, emetics , miosis, decreased GI motility
Morphine therapeutic uses
Acute pain, anesthetic premedication, antitussive
Adverse effects of morphine
Hyperexcitability, hypotension, cerebral hemorrhage or edema
Anaphyloid rx (mast cell degranulation)