Cardiac - Know The Details

Question 1

What do you monitor for in diuretics

Answer 1

Monitor hypokalemia

Question 2

What do you monitor for with ACEI/ ARB and MRA

Answer 2

Monitor for hyperkalemia

Question 3

Thiazide diuretics increase what? And when is it CI

Answer 3

Blood sugar levels
Triglyceride levels
Uric acid

CI- gout,
accentuates hyperlipidemias
Sulfa allergies

Question 4

Which BP meds do avoid in pregnancy ?

Answer 4

ACEI/ ARB, MRA and atenolol

Use: labelol, methyldopa, LA- nifedipine

Question 5

Beta blockers are for who?

Answer 5

<60 year old
Stable angina
Heart failure patients
History of MI

Question 6

common symptoms of CCB?

Answer 6

Headache
Dizziness
Leg edema

“HDL”

Question 7

Beta blockers are Contradinidicatwd with ?

Answer 7

PAD
Asthma/ COPD
Depression (propanolol linked to depression)
Diabetes
Dyslipidemia

PADDD

Question 8

Signs and symptoms of Beta blockers

Answer 8

BAD FISH
B- bradycardia
A- AV block dysfunction
D- dizziness, depression
F- fatigue, insomnia
I-impotence
S- signs of hypoglycaemia masked
H-headache

Question 9

ARB/ ACEI are contradindicated with

Answer 9

Black race
Pregnancy

Question 10

CCB are contradindicated with

Answer 10

Recent MI

Question 11

Thiazide diuretics contradindicated with

Answer 11

With gout
Sulfa allergies
Accentuates hyperlipidemia