What Med speed dating?
"I can make you lightheaded and dizzy and pee all night long, but your doc might tell you to eat spinach together to get you better"
What is loop diuretics. furosemide.
K wasting, watch sodium, talk to HCP about potassium food, usually prescribed earlier so not keeping you awake. Can make you hypotensive and dizzy. Watch for dehydration. Good for HF, HTN, Fluid
Inhaled corticosteroids
What is good oral care
What is BG check
Examples
heparin
What is protamine sulfate
An emergency drug used to treat seizures.
Benzodiazepine - lorazapam, diazepam
"pam" "lam"
I'm going too fast, and you are flushed!
Vancomycin
Vancomycin flushing syndrome, also known as "red man syndrome," is a side effect of the antibiotic vancomycin. It is a non-allergic, histamine-mediated reaction that occurs during or shortly after the infusion of vancomycin. Slow down the infusion, retreat with antihistamine like diphenhydramine.
"Hi, you can buy me, but I am neutral but can be jealous, so don't mix me with your others! You should break up with me in 2 weeks :( "
What is antacids
Diphenhydramine
What is 1st generation antihistamine, drowsy, safety, dries you out
acetaminophen
What is N-acetylcysteine (NAC), or acetylcysteine
Platelet aggregation
What is clopidogrel (Plavix)
aspirin
Bleeding precautions, MI/stroke prevention,
Your heart is too slow, well, take me in, and I will speed you up. Feeling like a slug? I will speed you up!
Atropine
Med to be familiar with due to its importance in emergency and critical care settings. It is classified as an anticholinergic agent, which means it blocks the action of acetylcholine.
This prevents the parasympathetic nervous system from being activated, leading to sympathomimetic effects such as increased heart rate, decreased salivation, and smooth muscle relaxation.
Benztropine is also an anticholinergic used along with other medications to treat the symptoms of Parkinson's disease (a disorder of the nervous system that causes difficulties with movement, muscle control, and balance) and tremors
"I will break your bones in the long run but I will prevent others from burning you"
What is PPI
end in "-prazole"
Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors
A-angioedema
C-cough
E-excess potassium
"pril"
warfarin
Acute heart failure - in ICU
milrinone
HF Acute, IV only, short term, It improves cardiac contractility (inotropy) and cardiac relaxation (lusitropy) and induces vasodilation.
I am 2 used as 1 for Parkinson's. One converts to dopamine in the brain, and the other works by preventing the other from being broken down before it reaches the brain. Adverse effect...
Carbidopa-Levodopa
SAFETY.. dizziness, drowsiness, trouble in controlling movements, trouble concentrating, or seeing clearly (and more).
"I will help that burning chest, but I won't make you throw up. Honey, I will get your gi moving"
What is metoclopramide - Prokinetics
Statins
What is - HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, lower cholesterol, lower LDL, give at night, no pregnancy, no grapefruit juice, adverse effect is myopathy so report muscle pain - rhabdomyolysis --> kidney damage. Liver damage, risk for bleed, increased BG.
opioid
What is naloxone
DAILY DOUBLE
Serotonin blockers are used to prevent nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery
Common side effects include headache and diarrhea. Serious adverse effects include bronchospasm and prolonged QT.
I am an antibiotic indicated in the first-line treatment of active or latent. You might have to take pyridoxine.. since you do not feel me holding your hand :(
Antitubercular Agents - isoniazid
Peripheral neuropathy
**black box warning**
Severe and sometimes fatal hepatitis may occur within the first 3 months of treatment and many months after treatment. Risk is related to age and increases with daily alcohol consumption.
Patients should be instructed about the signs and symptoms of hepatitis.
Rifampin- another TB med - can turn urine orange
So can a medicine for urinary tract pain called phenazopyridine (Pyridium).
"I will bring you a lot of sugar when you are down and not wanting to talk"
What is Glucagon.
IV dextrose 50% (D50W) is most appropriate for severe hypoglycemia
(Give 5% or 10% dextrose to avoid reactive hypoglycemia when highly concentrated dextrose infusion is abruptly withdrawn)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
what is antidepressants, tyramine -->hypertensive crisis, not typically the first-line treatment for depression, used for parkinsons to increase dopamine and help movement, take several weeks to begin working, can cause anticholinergic effects, such as dry mouth, hypotension, and suicide avoid St. John's Wort and other serotonin meds due to serotonin syndrome
benzodiazepine
flumazenil
Agent used to treat bradycardia and is an antidote for overdose of cholinergic drugs.
What is Atropine - antimuscarinic agent. Also reduces salivation and bronchial secretions before surgery. Dry you out, increase HR, dilate pupils, build pressure
What about adenosine?
DAILY DOUBLE