Names
What is the trade name for tiotropium?
Spiriva
What is the trade name for prednisone?
Rayos
Treatment or prevention of bronchospasm in asthma or COPD, short acting, Has a rapid onset (a few minutes) and often used to treat acute bronchospasm
Therapeutic: Bronchodilator
Pharmacologic: Adrenergic
albuterol
Proventil, Ventolin
Treatment of airway obstruction due to asthma and COPD, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
therapeutic: bronchodilator
pharmacologic: anticholinergic
tiotropium
Spiriva
What medication has side effects that masks symptoms of infection, delays wound healing, possible effects of body image, and can cause hyperglycemia?
prednisone, Rayos
What is the trade name for montelukast?
Singulair
What is the generic name for the trade names Proventil and Ventolin?
albuterol
Treatment of airway obstruction due to asthma and COPD, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Therapeutic: bronchodilator, allergy cold and cough
Pharmacologic: anticholinergic
ipratropium
Atrovent HFA
PO medication used for the prevention and treatment of asthma and management of seasonal allergies.
therapeutic: bronchodilator, allergy cold and cough remedies
pharmacologic: leukotriene antagonist
montelukast
Singulair
Which medication is often combined with albuterol to make Combivent and Duoneb?
ipratropium, Atrovent HFA
What are the trade names for fluticasone
Flovent, Arnuity Ellipta
What medication in respiratory meds no longer has a trade name?
levofloxacin
Tuberculosis TB treatment. Treatment is difficult because the bacterium has a waxy substance on the capsule that makes penetration and destruction difficult. One of the few drugs that treats TB with a multidrug regimen to destroy organisms as quickly as possible for 6-9 months.
Therapeutic: antitubercular
pharmacologic: Rifamycins
rifampin
Rofact
Used to treat a wide variety of chronic diseases including: inflammatory, allergic, hematologic, neoplastic, autoimmune disorders, asthma and can be used with other immunosuppressants in the prevention of organ rejection after transplantation. Use lowest dose possible for shortest amount of time, patient cannot stop abruptly. Can be PO, inhaled, injected, topical and IV
therapeutic: antiasthmatics, corticosteroids
Pharmacologic: corticosteroids (systemic)
prednisone
Rayos
Which medications most common side effects are nausea and diarrhea?
levofloxacin
What is the generic name for Rofact?
rifampin
Which should be used first? Bronchodilators or corticosteroids? Why?
Bronchodilator, enhances penetration of the corticosteroid into the bronchial tree
Commonly used to treat UTIs, respiratory, skin, GI, bone & joint infections as well as inhalation anthrax and plague. No longer first line treatment in gonorrhea due to increasing resistance.
therapeutic: Anti-infective
pharmacologic: fluoroquinolone
levofloxacin
no trade
Which medication comes with capsules that are used with the handihaler device and inhaled and should not be swallowed?
Spiriva (tiotropium)
Which medications most common side effects are tachycardia, tremors, and nervousness?
albuterol
Proventil, Ventolin
What is the trade name for ipratropium?
Atrovent HFA
If two different inhaled meds are prescribed, you need to instruct the patient to wait how long before following administration of the first before the second? If second dose of same med is needed, how long should they wait?
5 minutes
1-2 minutes for same dose
Locally acting (acts in lungs); decreases frequency and severity of asthma attacks; improves asthma symptoms.
Therapeutic: anti inflammatory steroidal antiasthmatic
Pharmacologic: corticosteroid
fluticasone
Flovent, Arnuity Ellipta
What medication has a side of thrush, requiring the pt to gargle and rinse their mouth after administration?
fluticasone
Flovent, Arnuity Ellipta