Adrenergics
This primary vasoactive drug stimulates SNS, it vasoconstricts, bronchodilates and used for emergencies.
What is Epinephrine?
This drug blocks adrenergic receptors and used primarily for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
What is Flomax (alpha-blockers)?
This drug increases ACH and effective for slowing the progression of Alzheimers disease.
What is Aricept (donepezil)?
This drug is used for the treatment of overactive bladder, and neurogenic bladder.
What is Ditropan (Oxybutynin)?
To noninvasively measure how well the cardiac output is when giving adrenergic medications you would assess this?
What is measuring urinary output?
This drug is a natural neurostimulator that can vasodilate renal/mesenteric vessels at low doses and vasoconstricts at high doses. This chemical is lacking in Parkinson disease.
What is dopamine?
This is the most commonly used Beta1 blocker.
What is Metoprolol (Lopressor)?
These symptoms of this severe consequence of overdosing on oral cholinergics include circulatory collapse, hypotension, bloody diarrhea, shock and cardiac arrest.
What is a cholinergic crisis?
This drug is used for the treatment of bradycardia and included on the ACLS algorhythm.
What is Atropine?
Preventative health teaching like Kegel's exercises is more important to reduce the need of this class of drugs.
What cholinergic blockers?
This drug directly stimulates alpha receptors therefore vasocontricts. Used primarily for shock, hypotension.
What is Levophed (Norepinephrine)?
This drug blocks both alpha and beta adrenergic receptors and used primarily for severe hypertension and hypertensive emergencies.
What is Labetalol?
What is Atropine?
This is the procedure to prevent systemic absorption when giving cholinergic blockers via the ophthalmic route.
What is punctal occlusion?
Teaching patients that it may take up to 6 weeks for a therapeutic response with these drugs.
What are medications used for Alzheimers like memantine, donazepil?
This drug relaxes the detrusor muscle indicated in relief of overactive bladder.
What is mirabegron (Myrbetriq)?
This drug has very potent antidysrhythmic properties and commonly used for the management of difficult to treat dysrhythmias.
What is Sotalol?
Cholinergics are used primarily for their target effects on which 3 organs?
What is the GI system, bladder and eye?
This drug is a antispasmodic cholinergic blocker used primarily with GI disturbances like irritable bowel syndrome.
What is dicyclomine (Bentyl)?
This drug is injected into the tissue when there is an extravasation of IV Dopamine.
What is phentolamine (Regitine) ?
This drug increases CO due to +inotropic action, only available as IV drug. Great for heart failure.
What is Dobutamine (Dobutrex)?
Indications for these drugs include angina, MI, cardiac dysrhythmias, hypertension and heart failure.
What is Beta Blockers?
These are the effects of cholinergic poisoning in the acronym S-L-U-D-G-E.
What is salivation, lacrimation, urinary incontinence, diarrhea, GI cramps and emesis?
This drug can be used via a transdermal patch for the treatment of motion sickness or as a preventative for postoperative nausea/vomiting.
What is Scopolamine?
This is a primary teaching point that needs to given to any patient starting alpha blockers.
What is the "first dose phenomenon" (profound hypotension on administration of the first dose)?