CAM
True or False:
Drug-herb interactions may either increase the prescription drug or reduce its effectiveness.
What is True
These drugs inhibit Angiotensin 1 from converting to Angiotensin 2 (causing vasoconstriction).
What are ACE Inhibitors (-pril)
Graperfruit/juice may cause toxic effects when using these drugs.
What are Calcium Channel Blockers
3 factors for blood pressure
What is Cardiac Output, Peripheral Resistance, and Blood Volume
These meds may treat hypertension, angina, and dysrhythmias
What are calcium channel blockers
True or False:
Many products can interfere with absorption, breakdown, and excretion of anesthetics, anticoagulants, and other drugs used in surgery.
Calcium channel blockers selective to arterioles affect which part of the cardiac function?
What is Afterload
3 side effects of taking ACE Inhibitors to monitor for pts.
What is Dry Cough, Hyperkalemia, and Angioedema
Name a classification of medications that lowers blood volume and BP
What are Diuretics
Nurses must monitor HR and BP for this classification of meds
What are Beta Blockers
True or False:
CAM does not focus on the role of spirituality in health and healing.
What is Flase
What are ARBS (-sarton)
These drugs cause CNS effects, sedation, and dizziness.
What is Alpha 2 Adrenergic Agonist and Clonidine
Target organs affected by untreated hypertension
What are the Heart, Brain, Kidneys, and Retina
What are Ca+ channel blockers (-dipine)
Side effects that include headache, dizziness, nausea, GI upset, increased bleeding, an allergic reaction happens with which herb?
What is Ginko Bilboa
Action works to decrease HR and contractibility, lower cardiac output, decrease angina, decrease BP, slows conduction through the myocardium, and AV node.
What are Beta Blockers (-olol)
May cause reflex tachycardia- Beta Blockers given in combo to decrease HR, sodium, and water retention diuretic given concurrently.
What is Direct Vasodilator and Hydralazine
Nonpharmacologic methods to control hypertension
What is limit alcohol, stop tobacco use, restrict Na+ intake, reduce saturated fat, increase vegetables and fruit, increase physical activity. reduce stress, and maintain optimum weight.
Decrease outflow of sympathetic nerve impulses from CNS, game response as Alpha-blockers, slowing HR, and dilation of arterioles
What are Alpha 2 Adrenergic Agonist and Clonidine
Pt receives anticoagulants secondary to previous blood clots. The nurse should reinforce that the pt should not take what?
What is Garlic
Causes dilation of vessels and smooth muscle relaxation which increases urine flow and causes arterial and venous dilation decreases peripheral vascular resistance, and BP.
What are Alpha 1 Adrenergic Blockers or Agonist (-osin)
Labs to monitor kidney function
What is BUN (elevated renal failure), Creatinine (elevated in renal failure), and K+ levels (>5.0)
What are first-line anti-hypertensives
What are Diuretics, ACE Inhibitors, ARBs, and CCBs
Classification of meds with side effects of bradycardia, hypertension, hypoglycemia, impotence, and bronchial constriction
What are Beta Blockers (-olol)