Week 2 Flashcards
What does the DEA handle
Purchase
Handling
Dispensing
Define pharmacodynamic
The effect a drug has on a body
What are the 4 types of tranquilizer sand sedatives?
Phenothiazine
Benzodiazepine
Alpha 2 agonist
Opioids
Define pharmacokinetics
The effect the body has on a drug
What are the 2 types of anticholinergics?
Atropine and glycopyrrolate
What is the Vegus nerve stimulated by?
Intubation
Traction on organs
Manipulation of the eye
Drugs
Which anticholinergic drug is better for emergency treatment of bradycardia?
Atropine
Name a type of phenothiazine
Acepromazine
Name a type of benzodiazepine
Diazepam
Name a type of alpha 2 agonist
Xylazine
What procedures are alpha 2 agonists commonly used for?
Minor procedures
What are the alpha 2 agonist drugs?
Xylazine
Dexmeditomadine
What are the alpha 2 antagonists drugs?
Tolazoline
Yohimbine
What are the commonly used opioids?
Morphine, hydromorphone, oxymorphine, and fentanyl
What is neuroleptanalgesia
State of profound sedation and analgesia
What do you mix to get a neuroleptanalgesia
An opioid and a tranquilizer
What are the two barbiturates that we use?
Pentobarbital and phenobarbital
What animals have slow recovery from propofol
Cats and sight hounds
What are the 2 dissociative anesthetics?
Ketamine and telazol
What are 2 advantages to telazol?
Causes less apneustic respirations than ketamine and respiratory depression can be significant
What are the 2 most common inhalation agents?
Isoflurane and sevoflurane
What is the blood gas partition coefficient?
A measure of the solubility of an inhalant anesthetic in blood as compared with alveolar gas
What does the partition coefficient indicate?
The speed of induction and recovery
Do patients anesthetized with agents with low blood has partition coefficients have a fast or slow recovery time?
Fast recovery time
What does the MAC used for?
Determined the average setting to produce surgical anesthesia
What disease factors affect MAC
Pregnancy and obesity
Does isoflurane have any analgesic effects?
No
Isoflurane induces good…
Muscle relaxation
Which has a higher vaporizer setting isoflurane or sevoflurane?
Sevoflurane
What does sevoflurane have during recovery?
Muscle rigidity
What are the major effects of guaifenesin
Skeletal muscle relaxant
Anesthetic agent
Any drug used to induce a loss of sensation with or without unconsciousness
Adjunct
A drug that is used during anesthesia to produce sedation, muscle relaxation, and analgesia
Define agonist
Bind to and stimulate receptors
Define antagonist
Bind to but do not stimulate receptors
Agonist-antagonist
Stimulate more than one receptor
Define dysphoria
Anxiety
Define nystagmus
Rhythmic oscillation of both eyes
What is apneustic respiration
A breathing pattern with pauses every few seconds
