Antianginal and Vasodilating Drugs
What is the purpose of antianginal drug therapy?
What is to increase blood flow to ischemic cardiac muscle.
What acts by inhibiting the movement of calcium ions across cell membranes of cardiac muscle cells.
What is Calcium Channel blockers.
The general term for a drug that dissolves thrombi
What is Thrombolytic drug
blood clot attached to a vessel wall in the circulatory system.
What is thrombus.
Lovenox is administered via which route
What is Subcutaneous injection
Which class of drug is used for the prevention of anginal pain?
What is Calcium Channel Blockers
What reduces heart rate and contractility?
What is Beta-blockers
The general term for a substance that prevents or delays coagulation of the blood
What is Anticoagulant
A substance that reverses the effect of heparin
A substance that reverses the effect of warfarin sodium
What is Protamine sulfate
What is Vitamin K
What is the most commonly prescribed oral anticoagulant?
What is Warfarin
What is headache.
What acts by relaxing the smooth muscle layer of blood vessels?
What is nitrates.
A substance that prevents platelet plugs from forming
What is Antiplatelet drug
What are drug-specific nursing diagnoses for anticoagulant, antiplatelet, and thrombolytic drug?
What are Injury risk, Altered health seeking behavior, Anxiety, Deficient Knowledge, and Anxiety
Pinpoint-sized red hemorrhagic spots on the skin
What is petechiae
What objective data would you obtain as a part of preadministration assessment for a client receiving an antianginal drug?
What is vital signs, physical appearance (skin color), auscultate lung sounds (adventitious sounds), weight, laboratory tests (EKG, stress test, chest x-ray).
These are contraindicated in clients who are hypertensive to the drugs and those with sick sinus syndrome, second-or third-degree AV block or hypotension.
What is Beta-and Calcium channel blockers
The nurse is reviewing the use of anticoagulants. Anticoagulant therapy is appropriate for which conditions?
What is Atrial fibrillation, MI, Presence of mechanical heart valve.
What are the sites to administer subcutaneous injections.
What is abdomen, buttocks lateral thighs, and upper arms.
What are interactions with anticoagulants
What is Grapefruit and its juice will increase serum levels of apixaban (eliquis) and rivaroxban (xarelto).
How many times can the sublingual nitroglycerin dose be repeated in a time frame?
What is repeated 5 minutes until pain is relieved or until the client has received three doses in a 15 minute period.
These are contraindicated in clients with known hypersensitivity to the drugs, severe anemia, closed-angle glaucoma, postural hypertension, early MI, head trauma, cerebral hemorrhage, allergy to adhesive or constrictive pericarditis.
What is Nitrates
A blood clot that dislodges and travels through the blood stream
What is Embolus.
What is the therapeutic range of the PT
What is 1.2-1.5 times the control value.
A client is at risk for a stroke. What drug is recommended to prevent platelet aggregation for stroke prevention.
What is Aspirin.