Antihyperlipidemic Drugs
If a client asks, "what is the good cholesterol?"
What is high-density lipoprotein?
What medication can be administered prior to taking niacin to help reduce adverse reactions.
What is Aspirin.
This can be referred to as a dysrhythmia or irregular heartbeat
What is arrhythmia.
Heart rate above 100 bpm?
Heart rate below 60 bpm?
What is tachycardia?
What is bradycardia?
If a client asks, "what is the bad cholesterol?"
What is low-density lipoprotein (LDL)
Common name for drugs that inhibit the manufacture or promote breakdown of cholesterol
What is statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors)
What are contraindications for statins?
What is hypersensitivity to the drugs or serious liver disorders, and during pregnancy (pregnancy category X), lactation, diabetes, alcoholism, non-alcohol-related liver disease, acute infection, hypotension, trauma, endocrine disorders, visual disturbances, and myopathy.
Rapid contraction of the atria (up to 300 bpm) at a rate too rapid for the ventricles to pump efficiently.
What is atrial flutter.
Digoxin is less effective in what race of people for the treatment of HF.
What is African Americans.
What are factors that are controllable in the development of hyperlipidemia?
What are Diet (saturated fat and cholesterol in food raise total and LDL cholesterol levels), Weight (increased weight can make LDL cholesterol level go up and HDL level go down), Physical inactivity (increased physical activity helps to lower LDL cholesterol and raise HDL cholesterol levels), Tobacco use.
What are some adverse reactions to taking Bile Acid Resins drugs.
What are belching, bloating, constipation, aggravation of hemorrhoids, abdominal cramps, flatulence, nausea, and increased bleeding tendencies related to vitamin K malabsorption and vitamin A and D deficiencies?
A rare condition in which muscle damage results in the release of muscle cell contents into the bloodstream.
What is Rhabdomyolysis
What are signs of left ventricular dysfunction?
What is SOB with exercise, dry, hacking cough, or wheezing, orthopnea (difficulty breathing while lying flat) restlessness and anxiety.
What are signs of right ventricular dysfunction
What is swollen ankles, legs, or abdomen, anorexia, nausea, nocturia, weakness, weight gain, palpitations, fatigue, or pain with normal activities.
When should statins be taken?
What is in the evening or at bedtime.
What are uncontrollable risk factors for the development of hyperlipidemia?
What are age (men older than 45 years and women older than 55 years), gender (in women after menopause, LDL cholesterol levels increase), Family history of early heart disease (father/brother before age 55 years and mother/sister before age 65 years)
What herb benefits include lowering serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels, improving the ratio of HDL to LDL cholesterol, lowering blood pressure, and helping to prevent the development of atherosclerosis?
What is Garlic.
For pediatric patients when should a cardiotonic drug be held?
For an infant when should it be held?
What is apical pulse rate below 70 bpm.
What is 90 bpm in an infant.
What is a Class IA drug?
Give an example
What is the therapeutic drug levels for digoxin
What is 0.8-2 ng/mL
What are objective data for preadministration assessment?
What is vital signs, weight, inspect skin and eyelids for evidence of xanthomas (flat or elevated yellowish deposit), lab tests-lipid profile (serum cholesterol) and other tests specific to client populations (liver function, blood glucose, and HbA1C).
What classification does the medication Gemifibrozil fall under what is its action?
Gemfibrozil is a Fibrates. Its action is that it increases the excretion of cholesterol in the feces and reduces the production of triglycerides by the liver, thus lowering serum lipid levels.
What are signs of digitalis toxicity?
What is GI-anorexia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea; Muscular weakness, lethargy; CNS-HA, drowsiness, visual disturbances (blurred vision, disturbance in yellow or green vision, halo effect around dark objects), confusion, disorientation, delirium; cardiac changes-bradycardia, tachycardia, PVC's.
Which of the following antiarrhythmic drugs are also used as antihypertensives?
What is B-Adrenergic and Calcium channel blockers
A cardiac arrhythmia characterized by rapid contractions and quivering of the atrial myocardium, resulting in an irregular and often rapid ventricular rate.
What is Atrial fibrillation.