Week 3, Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Flashcards
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Pharmacological class is a COX Inhibitor
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Pharmacological class is a COX Inhibitor
What is the Acetaminophen (Tylenol) Pharmacological class?
COX Inhibitor
Acetaminophen reduces fever by direct action at the level of the hypothalamus and dilation of peripheral blood vessels, which enables sweating and dissipation of heat.
Acetaminophen reduces fever by direct action at the level of the hypothalamus and dilation of peripheral blood vessels, which enables sweating and dissipation of heat
What Does Acetaminophen reduce?
Heat
How does Acetaminophen reduce heat?
Dilates the peripheral blood vessels
What location in the brain does acetaminophen effect?
The Hypothalamus
What happens to the body when Acetaminophen dilates the peripheral blood vessels?
Sweating is enabled and heat dissipates.
Adverse effects of Acetaminophen are Renal Failure and Liver damage in high doses.
Adverse effects of Acetaminophen are Renal Failure and Liver damage in high doses.
What are the adverse effects of Acetaminophen?
Renal Failure and Liver damage in high doses.
The Black Box Warning for Acetaminophen states that it can cause a severe and even fatal liver injury.
The Black Box Warning for Acetaminophen states that it can cause a severe and even fatal liver injury.
What does the Black Box Warning for Acetaminophen state?
That it can cause a severe and even fatal liver injury.
The Acetaminophen Drug-Drug reaction inhibits warfarin metabolism.
The Acetaminophen Drug-Drug reaction inhibits warfarin metabolism.
What is the Acetaminophen Drug-Drug reaction?
inhibits warfarin metabolism.
In Lab Tests, Acetaminophen may increase hepatic function test values such as AST, and ALT
In Lab Tests, Acetaminophen may increase hepatic function test values such as AST, and ALT
In Lab Tests, Acetaminophen may increase what?
Hepatic function test values such as AST, and ALT
