Lab Monitoring
Routine lab monitoring requirements for enoxaparin.
What is none?
Most often used classes of drugs for the treatment of heart failure.
What are ACE inhibitors/ARBs, beta blockers, and diuretics?
Reason for starting warfarin before heparin infusion is discontinued.
Which is to bridge the effects until warfarin has a chance to work in the body?
A hacking dry cough is an annoying side effect for this drug classification.
Education for a patient taking antihypertensive medication should include these topics.
What is factors that will reduce the effectiveness of antihypertension medication (smoking, drinking, poor diet, lack of exercise), factors to assist with antihypertensive efforts (exercise, healthy diet with fruits and vegetables), and safety considerations (possible postural hypotension, angioedema risk, etc.)?
Lab indicator that a patient has HIT II from heparin therapy.
What is a decrease of 50% or more in platelet count on a CBC?
This cardiac drug class holds the greatest risk for reflex tachycardia.
What are direct vasodilators?
Therapeutic effects of digoxin treatment.
What is decreased blood pressure, decreased heart rate, decreased dyspnea, and increased contractility of the heart?
Most concerning side effect of anticoagulant, antiplatelet, or fibrinolytic drug use.
What is bleeding in the body?
Patient education of greatest concern when using beta blockers for patients with diabetes.
How it may mask the signs of hypoglycemia requiring closer glucose monitoring?
aPTT or anti-Xa tests will be used to monitor this drug's therapeutic action.
What is heparin?
Classes of drugs used to treat patients with hypertension. (8 total, list at least 5 for points)
What are ACE inhibitors, alpha blockers, ARBs, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers, diuretics, direct acting vasodilators, and direct renin inhibitors.
Indications for administration of parenteral iron preparation.
Antidote for heparin.
What is protamine sulfate?
How diltiazem helps control angina.
By relaxing coronary arteries?
PT/INR is used for the monitoring of this drug.
What is warfarin?
The drug class that is most effective at improving LDL cholesterol.
What are statins?
How nitroglycerin helps to lessen the pain of angina.
By reducing the oxygen demands of the heart through peripheral vasodilation, which decreases preload?
Adverse effect of ACE inhibitors requiring immediate medical attention.
What is angioedema?
Patients need to be educated about this symptom that may be an adverse effect of taking a statin medication.
What is muscle pain, possibly indicating progression towards rhabdomyolysis?
Labs that should be monitored with the use of a statin.
Which includes lipid profile, liver enzymes, and CK?
These drug classifications carry a potential adverse effect of hyperkalemia.
What are ACE inhibitors, ARBs, and aldosterone-receptor antagonists?
How ACE inhibitors prolong life for patients with heart failure.
What is the prevention or reversal of heart remodeling?
Signs and symptoms of digoxin toxicity.
Which can include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, confusion, anxiety, hallucinations, visual disturbances, palpitations, tachycardia, bradycardia, and irregular heartbeat?
Benefit of the use of a beta blocker with a calcium channel blocker.
What is the prevention of reflex tachycardia?