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| Another name for Thrombolytic Drugs |
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| Respiratory System Includes: |
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| upper and lower airways, lungs, thoracic cavity |
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| Function of Respiratory System |
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| to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide from the blood in the lungs. |
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| a substance in various body tissues, such as the heart, lungs, gastric mucoso, and skin, that is produced in response to injury |
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| Highest Concentration of Histamine found in the: |
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| basophils (type of white blood cells) and mast cells (found near the capillaries) |
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| Drugs used to counteract the effects of histamine on the body organs and structures |
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| What are Decongestiants used for? |
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| Temporary relief of common cold, hay fever, nasal congestion, resp. allergies, and sinusitus. |
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| A drug that reduces swelling of the nasal passages, which in turn opens clogged nasal passages and enhances drainage in the sinuses. |
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| seasonal allergies, conjuntivitis, relief of nausea and vomitting, treatment of parkinsonism, sedation, rhinitus |
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| sympathomimetic drugs which priduce localized vasocontriction of the small blood vessels of the nasal membranes |
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| What are decongestiants used for: |
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| trat the congestion associated with thinitis hay fever, allergic shinitis, sinusitus, and the common cold, also aduchtive therapy for middle ear ingections of decrease in congestion around eustacion tubes |
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| exinsic, intrinsic, and mised asthma |
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| caused by chronic or recurrent respiratory ingections, emotional upset and excersise |
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| caused by extrinsic and intrinsic asthma |
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| a decrease in the number of blood cells (RBC's), a decrease in the amount of hemoglobin in RBCs, or both decrease in number of RBCs and hemoglobin |
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| another name for thrombolytic drugs |
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| folinic acid or leucovorin rescue |
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| the tecnique of administering leucovorin after large dose of methotrexate to rescue normal cells and allow them to survive. |
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| a process that stops bleeding in a blood vessel |
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| a substance produced by cells in the stomach that is necessary for the absorption of vitamin B12 in the intestine |
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| condition that results when the body does not have enough iron to supply the bodies needs. |
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| a type of anemia that results from a deficiency of folic acid and certain other causes. |
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| a type of megaloblastic anemia that results from a dificiency of intrinsic factor |
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| a substance that is essential for the clotting of blood |
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| Anticoagulants are used to prevent the formation and extension of a _______ |
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| warfarin, anisdione, and fractionated and unfractionated heparin |
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| Warfarin is the oral __________ most commonly prescribed. |
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| Most common adverse reaction of Warfarin |
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| Heparin in hibits the formation of: |
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| fibrin clots, the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, and inactivates several of the factors necessary for clotting of blood. |
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| Chief complication of Heparin administration: |
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| Thrombolytics are a group of drugs that are used to dissolve certain types of blood clots and reopen blood vessels after they have been occluded...T of F |
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| Most common adverse reaction of a thrombolytic drug: |
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1. iron deficiency
2. anemia in chronic renal failure (CRF)
3. Pernicious Anemia
4. Folic Acid deficiency |
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| Bile Acid Sequestrants are used as _______________- |
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| adjuctive therapy to reduce elevated serum cholesterol in patients with hypercholesterolemia who do not adequetely repond to a diet and excersise program. |
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| COmmon side effect of Bile acid sequestrants |
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| What is used to trear hyperlipidemia? |
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| HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, along with a diet restricted in saturated fat and cholesterol. |
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| rhabdomyolysis is a adverse reaction of: |
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| HMG CoA reductase inhibitors. |
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| Niacin is used as adjuctive therapy for the treatment of: |
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| very high serum triglyceroid levels in patiends at risk for pancreatis. |
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| a disorder in which lipid deposits accumulate on the lining of the blood vessels, eventually producing degenerative changes and obstruction of blood flow. |
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| these drugs bind to bile acids to form an insoluble substance that cannot be absorbed by the intestine, so it is excreted in the feces. |
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| a substance that accelorates a chemical reaction without itself undergoing change. |
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| one of the lipids in th eblood |
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| high density lipoproteins |
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| high density lipoproteins |
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| carry cholesterol from peripheral cells to the liver where it is metabolozed and excreted. |
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| HMG CoA reductase inhibitors: |
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| an enzyme that is a catalyst in the manufacture of cholesterol. |
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| an increase (hyper) in lipids (lipid), which are fats or fat-like substances, in the blood (emia). |
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| fat or fat like proteins in the blood |
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| a lipid containing protein |
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| low density lipoproteins (LDL) |
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| transport cholesterol into peripheral cells |
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| a rare condition in which muscle damage results in the release of muscle cell contents into the blood stream |
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| a type of lipds in the blood. |
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| Low density lipoproteins (LDL)...Harmful lipoprotein |
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| high density lipoprotein (HDL)..protective lipoprotein |
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| Antihyperlipidemic Drugs Contain: |
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Bile Acid Sequestrants,
HMG CoA reductase inhibitors,
Fibric Acid Derivatives,
Niacin,
Garlic |
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| lowers blood pressure, imrpoves ration of HDL to LDL cholesterol levels, prevents atherosclerosis.. |
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| Antianginal drugs include: |
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nitrates,
calcium channel blockers, |
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| a disorder caused by atheroscerotic plaque formation in the coronary arteries, which causes decreased oxygen supply to the heart muscle and results in chest pain or pressure. |
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| a disease characterized by deposits of fatty plaques on the inner wall of arteries. |
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| intermittent claudication |
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| a group of symptoms characterized by pain in the calkf muscle of one or both legs; caused by walking and relieved by rest. |
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| the inside diameter of a vessel such as an artery. |
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| a convenient form of drug administration in which the drug is impregnated into a pad and absprbed through the skin |
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| an increase in the size of blood vessels, primarily small arteries and arterioles |
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| Nitrates have a ______ effect on the smooth muscle layer of blood vessels. |
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| Peripheral vasodilating drugs are given for disorders that effect ___ |
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| blood vessels of the extremities. by decreasing blood flow. |
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| Cardiotonics, Miscellaneous Inotropic, and Antiarrhythmic drugs are used for _______ _________ |
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| an electrical impulse thqat passes from cell to cell in the myocardium, stimulating fibers to shorten and causing muscular contration (systole) |
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| a cardiac arrhythmia charecterized by rapid contractions of the atrial myocardium, resulting in an irregular and often rapid ventricular rate |
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| a disturbance or irregularity in the heart rate or rhythm or both. |
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| the action of antiarrhythmic drugs blocking stimulation of beta receprors of the heart by adrenergic neurohormones |
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| the amount of blood leaving the left ventricle with each contraction |
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| a term for quinidine toxicity |
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| the movement of a stimulus passing along the nerve, the positive ions move from outsoide the cell into the cell. and the negative ions move from inside the cell to outside the cell. |
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| a series of digitalis doses given until the drug begins to ecert a fiull therapuetic effect. |
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| the amount of blood that the ventricle ejects per beat in a relationship to the amount of blood avaulable to eject |
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| denoted bu the initial ventricle dysfunction. |
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| marked by reduced blood flow caused by arterial narrowing or blockage or other causes. |
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| left ventricular dysfuntion |
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| most common form of heart failure |
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| the point at which positive ions on the outside and negative ions on the inside of a cell membrane are in equilibrium. |
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