Anti(dote)-Hero
A nurse can expect to give this antidote to a client taking warfarin that has a critically high PT/INR.
What is vitamin K?
Hypokalemia is a primary concern for this loop diuretic.
What is furosemide?
Ibuprofen should be administered with this consideration to avoid a common side effect.
What is "administer with food to avoid GI upset?"
This is an expected change in pharmacokinetics in the older adult.
What is decreased drug metabolism and excretion due to reduced kidney and liver function?
The PT/INR is used to monitor therapeutic levels of this medication.
What is warfarin?
A client has been given morphine and assessment reveals a RR of 8 and O2 sat of 83%. The nurse prepares to administer this medication.
What is naloxone?
This potassium-sparing diuretic has several endocrine side effects due to its hormone-blocking action.
What is spironolactone?
Constipation, sedation, and respiratory depression are common effects of this analgesic drug class.
What are opioid analgesics?
This organ is primarily responsible for drug metabolism.
What is the liver?
After reviewing a critically elevated aPTT for a patient on heparin therapy, the nurse prepares to give this reversal medication.
What is protamine sulfate?
A client who has taken an acetaminophen overdose can be administered this medication.
What is Acetylcysteine?
This diuretic is a potassium-wasting wasting, often used as a first-line treatment for essential hypertension, and used in combination antihypertensive treatments.
What is hydrochlorothiazide?
This is the general daily limit for acetaminophen intake for a healthy adult patient.
What is 4 grams (4000 mg)?
The amount of time it takes in the body for the amount of a given medication to drop by 50%.
What is half-life?
This is another name for low molecular weight heparin (LMWH).
What is enoxaparin or Lovenox?
A client presents with unresponsiveness, respiratory depression, and hypotension following the ingestion of lorazepam (a benzodiazepine). The nurse prepares this antidote.
What is flumazenil?
This diuretic is used to treat increased intracranial pressure.
What is mannitol?
Aspirin is typically avoided in children and adolescents due to this potentially life-threatening complication if given in the presence of a viral illness.
What is Reye syndrome?
This term describes the difference between a drug's "peak" and "trough" when drug levels reach optimal blood concentration.
What is the therapeutic index?
A client on anticoagulation therapy should monitor for these signs and symptoms of bleeding. (Name at least two).
What are bleeding gums, excessive bruising, bloody stool, dark tarry stool, increased heart rate, decreased blood pressure, petechiae, hematomas.
A client taking digoxin complains of visual halos and has an apical heart rate of 48. The nurse knows this medication is the reversal agent for digoxin.
What is digibind or dig immune fab?
Clients who take diuretics twice daily should be instructed to take their doses at these times.
What is early morning and noon-2pm to prevent nocturia.
Hepatotoxicity is a primary concern for clients taking this non-opioid analgesic.
What is acetaminophen?
This is the difference between an antagonist and an agonist.
What is antagonists block a usual receptor activity, agonists bind to or mimic the receptor activity?
These lab tests should be monitored for a client taking clopidogrel. (Name three)
What are CBC (Hgb, Hct, Platelets), PT/INR, aPTT, Liver enzymes?