Drugs of the Respiratory system
What is the respiratory stimulant that is used to stimulate respirations following C-Sections or Dystocia?
Doxapram
This drug is considered to be mucus breaking and used to treat acetaminophen toxicity.
Mucolytics
What are the two centrally acting antitussives that are considered non-narcotic
Dextromethorphan and Trimeprazine (Temaril P)
What is the Respiratory System responsible for?
The exchange of CO2 and O2
How do we treat Infectious Tracheobronchitis?
With Opioids (Cough Suppressants)
What drug normally ends in -amine and is used to block the effects of histamines? Name two examples.
Anti-histamines
Diphenhydramine and chlorpheniramine.
What is the action of Methylxanthines?
Widen the lumen of the bronchi to counteract the bronchoconstriction.
What causes upper respiratory diseases?
Infectious agents
Heaves
What are the treatments for Heaves? Name the hygiene precautions as well as the drugs used.
Hygiene: Keep horses outside, reduce dust, store hay in a dry place, improve the ventilation in stables.
Drugs: Glucocorticoids (Inhalants) and Bronchodilators.
Name the drug:
Considered the debris-clearing drug, that helps improve respiratory secretion flow to allow mucus to be coughed up.
Expectorants (Guaifenesin)
What are the adverse effects seen with the use of Antihistamines?
CNS Depression
Dry Mouth
Urinary Retention
This drug reduces the viscosity or thickness of respiratory secretions when used.
Hint: Mucus Breaking
Acetylcysteine
Name the narcotic antitussives
Butorphanol, Hydrocodone, Codiene.
What drug is used in an oral route to treat feline asthma?
Glucocorticoids
Name this Drug:
Centrally acting, controls coughing. Has two categories, Narcotic and Non-narcotic.
Antitussives
With Pulmonary Edema, what are the common signs that we see?
Dyspnea
Decreased exercise tolerance
Left side heart failure causing fluid to back up into the lungs which leads to the dyspnea.
Name the Selective Bronchodilators (Target specific bronchodilators)
HINT: C.A.T.
Clenbuterol
Albuterol
Terbutaline
This drug is used to decrease the congestion of nasal passages by reducing the swelling.
Hint: There are two named to reduce the swelling and end in -rine
Phenylephrine and pseudophedrine
Two Parter:
What is the most costly respiratory disease of dairy and beef cattle, and what is its main treatment?
Hint: Shipping Fever
Bovine Respiratory Disease
Treat with antibiotics.
What drug category does Methylxanthines and Beta-2 Adrenergic Agonists belong to? Name one example of both above named.
Bronchodilators
M= Aminophylline and Theophylline
B= Terbutaline, Albuterol, Clenbuterol, Epinephrine, Isoproterenol
Name the nonselective Bronchodilators (Target all of the Beta-2 Agonists)
HINT: I.E.
Isoproterenol and Epinephrine
Which drug used to treat asthma is a fungal-derived protein used for allergic response in feline asthma?
This drug can cause nephrotoxicity.
HINT: Sounds fungal
Cylosporin (Atopica)
What are the conditions seen often in the lower respiratory system?
Asthma
Bronchitis
Pneumonia
Heaves
For Asthma, what are the drugs often used to treat feline asthma.
Glucocorticoids (orally)
Bronchodilators (Terbutaline and Albuterol)
Methylxanthines (Theophylline)
Cylosporin (Atopica)