Agonists
Many medications acting on the ANS are given in the eye. The medical term for this medication administration is _______.
What is ophthalmic?
This medication is usually indicated to treat life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias.
What is amiodarone?
These agents can be used topically in the eye to produce miosis and treat glaucoma.
What are cholinergic agonists?
This method of medication administration must be applied to clean, dry, intact, hairless areas of the body.
What is dermal?
This medication is given to correct hemodynamic imbalances present in shocks.
What is dopamine?
This medication is used for the treatment of dermal necrosis and sloughing associated with IV extravasation of norepinephrine or dopamine.
What is Phentolamine?
This medication for myasthenia gravis can also be used as the antidote for nondepolarizing neuromuscular junction blockers can cause many different GI adverse effects including hypersalivation and dysphagia.
What is Pyridostigmine?
When this system is blocked the pupils dilate, the heart rate rises; GI activity and bladder tone/function decrease.
What is the parasympathetic system?
These medications should not be administered to clients with narrow-angle glaucoma due to exacerbating arterial constriction.
What are alpha-specific adrenergic agonists?
These mediations block smooth muscle receptors in the prostate, prostate capsule, prostatic urethra, and urinary bladder neck which helps to improve urine flow in male patients.
What are Alpha1-Selective Adrenergic Blocking Agents?
These medications cross the blood-brain barrier and are used to manage Alzheimer's disease by increasing ACh levels in the brain which slows the progression of the disease.
What are Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors?
This medication can be given to increase the heart rate and is the antidote for cholinergic overdose.
What is Atropine?
These medications can be used to manage or treat asthma, bronchospasm, and obstructive pulmonary diseases.
What are Beta2-specific adrenergic agonists?
These 11 different alternative therapies interact with adrenergic blocking agents.
Ginseng, sage, xuan shen, nightshade, celery, coriander, di huang, fenugreek, goldenseal, java plum, and saw palmetto.
These medications used for Alzheimer's disease are metabolized in the liver and excreted in the urine.
What are indirect-acting cholinergic agonists?
These herbal therapies should not be combined with anticholinergic agents.
What are burdock, rosemary, and tumeric?
This medication can be administered for many different things including: cold/allergies, shock/shock-like states, supraventricular tachycardia, glaucoma, allergic rhinitis, and otitis media.
What is phenylephrine?
These medications can be used for the treatment of myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, hypertension, and arrhythmias, and they do not block sympathetic bronchodilation.
What are Beta1-Selective Adrenergic Blocking Agents?
These medications are taken three times a day with meals to rate Sjogren's syndrome but can cause some potentially fatal cardiac adverse effects including death.
What are direct-acting cholinergic agonists?
This medication is the antidote for Atropine Toxicity.
What is physostigmine?