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Heart Failure
Dysrhythmias
Drug Classification
Side Effects
100
Pressure that must be overcome for the ventricles to eject blood from the heart
What is afterlaod
100
Disease in which the heart muscle cannot contract with sufficient force to meet the body's metabolic needs
What is Heart Failure
100
Number of drug classes to treat dysrhythmias
What is 5
100
Verapamil
What is calcium channel blocker
100
Visual disturbance seen with digoxin
What is halos, yellow/green tinge or blurring
200
Amount of blood pumped by a ventricle in 1 minute
What is cardiac output
200
Gradual increase of digoxin over several days to obtain a rapid therapeutic level
What is digitalization
200
Under resting conditions, a new action potential crosses the myocardium approximately how many times every minute?
What is 75
200
Lidocaine
What is sodium channel blocker
200
Most dangerous adverse effect of digoxin, especially in clients with hypokalemia
What is dysrhythmias
300
Strength by which the myocardial fibres contract
What is contractility
300
Adverse effects of digoxin include
What is nausea, vomiting, anorexia, visual disturbances
300
nonpharmacological therapy for dysrhythmia
What is cardioversion, defibrillation, catheter ablation, pacemaker
300
Digoxin
What is cardiac glycoside
300
Most serious side effect of amiodarone
What is pneumonia like syndrome
400
Degree of stretch of hte cardiac muscle fibres just before they contract
What is preload
400
First-line therapy for Heart Failure
What is ACE inhibitor
400
Prototype sodium ion channel blocker
What is procainamide
400
amiodarone
What is potassium channel blocker
400
Some drugs in the sodium channel bockers class can cause ________ embolism.
What is arterial
500
The greater the degree of stretch on the myocardial fibres, the greater the force by which they contract
What is Frank-Starling law
500
This drug inhibits Na/K ATPase to increase the contractability of myocardial contraction
What is digoxin
500
Mechanism of action of antidysrhythmic drugs
What is blocking conduction or altering automaticity
500
Quinidine
What is sodium channel blocker
500
Concern when taking any dysrhythmia
What is worsening or creating new dysrhythmias
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