Neurotransmitters
Communicates between nerves and muscles
Acetylcholine
These drugs are drugs that are used to lyse or break the feeling of anxiety.
Anxiolytic
What are the side effects of Benzodiazepines
Nervous system effects include sedation, drowsiness, depression, lethargy, blurred vision, “sleep driving” and other complex behaviors, headaches, apathy, light-headedness, amnesia, and confusion.
Seizures caused abnormal cells; no underlying cause can be identified
Primary seizure
Most common drug used for Parkinson disease.
Levodopa is the mainstay of treatment for Parkinson disease.
Released by nerves in the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system
Norepinephrine and epinephrine
The loss of awareness and reaction to environmental stimuli. It may frequently lead to drowsiness
Sedation
I can abruptly stop taking Benzodiazepines. True or false.
False. Abrupt cessation of these drugs may lead to a withdrawal syndrome characterized by nausea, headache, vertigo, malaise, and nightmares.
Adverse effects caused by barbiturates are more severe than those associated with other, newer sedative–hypnotics. True or false
operate heavy machinery
Therapeutic serum phenytoin levels
Therapeutic serum phenytoin levels range from 10 to 20 mcg/mL.
Involved in the coordination of impulses and responses, both motor and intellectual.
Dopamine
A feeling of tension, nervousness, apprehension, or fear that usually involves unpleasant reactions to a stimulus, whether actual or unknown.
Anxiety
What is the antidote for Benzodiazepines
Flumezanil (Romazicon)
Risk of addiction and dependence is greater with barbiturates and adverse effects are greater than sedative-hypnotic drugs. True or false?
true
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Oral adverse effects of phenytoin
severe liver toxicity, bone marrow suppression, gingival hyperplasia,
Inhibits nerve activity and is important in preventing overexcitability or stimulation such as seizure activity.
Gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA
Used to help people fall asleep by causing sedation.
Hypnotics
This classification of medication causes the patient to have dry mouth, urinary retention constipation
Anticholinergic Agents
double the points if you can name 1. Benztropine (Cogentin), Diphenhydramine (Benadryl), and Trihexyphenidyl (generic).
Seizures caused by outside factors—head injury, drug overdose, environmental exposure, may precipitate seizures.
Secondary seizures
The therapeutic serum level range of phenobarbital
The therapeutic serum level range is 10 to 40 mcg/mL.
Important in arousal and sleep, as well as in preventing depression and promoting motivation.
Serotonin
The most frequently used anxiolytic drugs, prevent anxiety without causing much associated sedation.
Benzodiazepines
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Patient who received parenteral(injection) benzodiazepines are at risk for?
Risk for falls.Maintain patients who receive parenteral benzodiazepines in bed for a period of at least 3 hours. Do not permit ambulatory patients to operate a motor vehicle after an injection.
Begin in one area of the brain and rapidly spread throughout both hemispheres of the brain.
Generalized Seizures
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There is a cure for Parkinsons?
No, Therapy is aimed at management of signs and symptoms to provide optimal functioning for as long as possible.