GI Fun
What are the potential serious adverse effects to Ondanesetron?
Prolonged Q-T Interval
What is the benefit of Buspar/Buspirone? What's it for?
Anxiety, and it has fewer dependence risks than other Benzo's
What do you not do when you are on Phenobarbital
No alcohol
What are the effects of anticholinergics?
Drying
What do we give Lasix for? What disease process?
CHF
To help stimulate appetite many times with chemo patients
Fluoxetine, amitriptiline, bupropion, and phenelzine.... what are these meds?
Antidepressants
What patients cannot take beta blockers?
Asthmatics
Atropine is used for what?
To increase heart rate
What is Fosfomycin for?
UTI's
What id Clozapine for? What are the cautions?
Antipsychotics, used for schizophrenia. Worried about extrapyramidal effects.
Discuss what you need to teach your patients who are on ADHD medications
Give before you eat a meal or snack, watch growth in kids
Anticholinergic meds block the PNS or SNS?
Do Anticholinergics help with motion sickness?
PNS, yes it does help with motion sickness.
What is Losartin?
ARB
What are the actions of adrenergic agonists?
Act on the SNS to speed up processes or produce a response.
What does Loperamide do?
Draws fluid away from the stool and slows intestinal motility
What are the symptoms of serotonin syndrome?
hallucinations, diaphoresis, agitation, fever, muscle tremors hyperreflexia
With Ketamine, what can the patient experience?
hallucinations
Assess breath sounds, wheezing improved
With Cholinergic agonists, is the PNS or SNS stimulated?
PNS
What are we most worried about with SSRI's? Sertraline
Suicidal ideation
How do we know carbidopa/levodopa is having a therapeutic effect?
Decreased muscle rigidity and tremors
What is the drug of choice for myasthenia gravis?
Pyridostigmine bromide
What labs do we watch when a patient is on heparin?
What labs do we watch when a patient is on coumadin?
aPTT
PT/INR
What are we most worred about when we combine digoxin and lasix?
We are most worried about digoxin toxicity. Low potassium increases digoxin toxicity