CARDIAC GLYCOSIDE, ANTIANGINALS AND ANTIDYSRHYTMIC DRUGS (Reporter # 22)

Question 1

Cardiac failure/Heart Failure

LEFT SIDED H

Answer 1

: Pulmonary = DOB, crackles, shortness of breathing, “lungs”
- Left ventricle does not contract sufficiently.
- shortness of breath (SOB), and dyspne

Question 2

Cardiac failure/Heart Failure

RIGHT SIDED

Answer 2

F : Systemic = edema (anasarca – generalized edema), easy
fatigability
- The heart does not sufficiently pump blood returned in the right atriu

Question 2

• effectiveness in treating

Answer 2

CARDIAC GLYCOSIDES
DIGITALIS/DIGITALIS GLYCOSIDES
- Foxglove plant

Question 3

THREE EFFECTS OF DIGITALIS IN HEART MUScle

Answer 3

E
1. Positive INOTROPIC action- myocardial contraction stroke volume
2. Negative CHONOTROPIC action- heart rate
3. Negative DROMOTROPIC action- conduction of heart cell

Question 4

• antidote for Cardiac/ digitalis toxici

Answer 4

y
DIGOXIN-IMMUNE FAB - antidote for Cardiac/ digitalis toxic

Question 5

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TYPES OF ANTIANGINAL DRUG

1. NITRATES

a. NITROGLYCERINE

Answer 5

(short acting) = Vasodilation! = “open” cardiac blood
vessEL

● SE and AR - light headedness, hypotension,

Question 6

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TYPES OF ANTIANGINAL DRUG

1. NITRATES

b. ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE and ISOSORBIDE MONONITRATE

Answer 6

(long actinG)

taken SublinguAL

Question 7

TYPES OF ANTIANGINAL DRUG

2. BETA BLOCKERS “-OLOL

Answer 7

● AntihypertensivE

● SIDE EFFECTS: dizziness, drowsiness, bradycardia, depression

Question 8

TYPES OF ANTIANGINAL DRUG
3. CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKERS (CCBS

a. AMLODIPINE

Answer 8

E
● MOA: inhibits calcium influx across cardiac and smooth muscle cells – DOC of
Vasospasm

Question 9

-local anesthetic, used to treat Acute Ventricular Dysrhythm

Answer 9

● Lidocaine