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Pharm 1 Liner- Autonomics Flashcards

1
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Beta blockers with partial agonist activity, can bronchodilator and may have an advantage treating patients with asthma (2)

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Pindolol, acebutolol

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Indicated for symptomatic orthostatic hypotension

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Midodrine

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3
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Antimuscarinic for prophylaxis of motion sickness

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Scopolamine

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Beta blockers effect on the heart in antianginal therapy (6)

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Reduce heart rate, blood pressure, contractility, myocardial oxygen consumption, increase ejection time, and no change or increase end diastolic volume

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5
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Blocks alpha 1 and beta receptors and indicated for treatment of CHF

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Labetalol and carvedilol

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6
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Its ability to vasoconstrict and increase blood pressure makes it useful as local decongestant and for the therapy of spinal shock (temporary maintenance of blood pressure)

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Alpha 1 agonists

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Treatment of myasthenia gravis and sometimes used prophylactically for organophosphate poisoning in chemical warfare

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Pyridostigmine

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Organophosphate, indicated for glaucoma but not used much clinically due to long duration of action

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Echothiophate

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9
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Alpha 1a-selective blocker used for BPH

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Tamsulosin

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A non-selective beta blocker with alpha 1 blocking effect indicated for CHF

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Carvedilol

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Beta blockers are used for this type of angina attack

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Classic (exertional) angina

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12
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Beta blockers should be used cautiously in (3)

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Asthma (bronchospastic effects), diabetics (block signs of hypoglycemia), and peripheral vascular disease

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13
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Toxicity caused by this class of drugs is chars by DUMBELSS (diarrhea, urination, miosis, bronchoconstriction, excitation of skeletal muscle and CNS, lacrimation, salivation, sweating)

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Cholinergic drugs

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14
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Indirect acting sympathomimetic, improves urinary continence in children and elderly with enuresis

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Ephedrine

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15
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Short acting beta blocker that can be given parenterally, commonly used in hemodynamically unstable patients

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Esmolol

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16
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Beta 1 agonist toxicity (2)

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Sinus tachycardia and serious arrhythmia

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17
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Contraindications to use atropine (3)

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Infants, closed angle glaucoma, prostatic hypertrophy

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18
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Its ability to increase heart rate makes it useful as adjunct therapy for acute herat failure and hypovolemia or septic shock

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Beta 1 agonist

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19
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Muscarinic selective cholinomimetic used to diagnose asthma

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Methacholine

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20
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Longer acting beta 2 agonist, indicated for prophylaxis of asthma

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Slameterol

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21
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Alpha agonist indicated for nasal congestion, hypotension, and mydriasis induction

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Phenylephrine

22
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Indirect acting sympathomimetic, reuptake inhibitor, commonly abused, indicated for attention deficit disorder and weight reduction

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Methaphetamine

23
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Insecticide organophosphate

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Malathion, parathion

24
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Beta agonist used in acute CHF

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Dobutamine and dopamine

25
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Drug of choice for anaphylactic shock

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Epinephrine

26
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Anti muscarinic that produces mydriasis and cycloplegia

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Atropine and anti-muscarinics

27
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Irreversible, non-selective alpha-blocker indicated for pheochromocytoma

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Phenoxybenzamine

28
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Short acting beta 2 agonist, drug of choice for acute asthma

29
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Selective beta 1 receptor blockers useful for treating cardiac conditions in patients with asthma (5)

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Acebutolol, betaxolol, esmolol, atenolol, metoprolol (A BEAM)

30
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Pneumonic for beta receptors

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You have 1 heart (beta 1) and 2 lungs (beta 2)

31
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This agent has greater affinity for muscarinic receptors and used for postoperative and neurogenic ileus and urinary retention

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Bethanechol

32
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Atropine fever is the most dangerous effect and can be lethal in this population group

33
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Selective alpha 1 blocker used for HTN, BPH, may cause first dose orthostatic Hypotension (3)

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Prazosin, terazosin, doxazosin

34
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Alpha 1 agonist toxicity

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Hypertension

35
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The most important cause of acute deaths in cholinesterase inhibitor toxicity

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Respiratory failure

36
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Beta 2 agonist adverse effect

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Skeletal muscle tremor

37
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Mechanism of action of atropine

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Non-selective antimuscarinic

38
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Beta 2 agonist used to suppress premature labor, but cardiac stimulatory effects may be hazardous to mother and fetus

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Terbutaline

39
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Reversible, non-selective alpha blocker indicated for pheochromocytoma

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Phentolamine

40
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Antimuscarinic that treats Parkinsonism and extrapyramidal disease

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Benztropine

41
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Alkaloid muscarinic that is very lipid soluble and used in glaucoma

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Pilocarpine

42
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Used in treatment of muscarinic symptoms in organophosphate overdose

43
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Cholinesterase inhibitor, intermediate duration of action, used off label for postoperative paralytic ileus and urinary retention

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Neostigmine

44
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Antimuscarinic indicated for overactive bladder muscle dysfunction

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Oxybutynin

45
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Side effects of beta blockers

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Bradycardia, AB block, impotence, dyslipidemia, exacerbation of COPD

46
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Cholinesterase inhibitor, short duration of action, used in diagnosis of myasthenia gravis

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Edrophonium

47
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Antimuscarinic that causes bronchodilation in asthma and COPD (2)

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Ipatropium, tiotropium

48
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Non-selective beta blocker that lacks local anesthetic activity, indicated for glaucoma

49
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Muscarinic used to treat dry mouth in Sjögren’s syndrome

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Pilocarpine or cevimeline

50
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Cholinesterase inhibitor, lipid soluble, indicated for atropine overdose and glaucoma

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Physostigmine

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