Cardiovascular Drugs

Question 1

aspirin for heart attacks and for maintenance therapy, clopidogrel (Plavix)

Answer 1

Platelet inhibitors

Question 2

chew two 325 mg tablets for heart attack emergency or take 1 baby (81mg/day) maintenance

Answer 2

Aspirin

Question 3

high $$, high-selling antiplatelet drug that helps prevent stroke and recurrent MI

Answer 3

clopidogrel (Plavix)

Question 4

nitroglycerin drugs and isosorbide dinitrate (Isordil)–vasodilators that improve coronary blood flow

Answer 4

Nitrates

Question 5

Nitrostat, nitroglycerine paste, Transderm-Nitro, etc.

Answer 5

nitroglycerine

Question 6

(Isordil) another nitrate vasodilator that improves blood flow of heart

Answer 6

isosorbide dinitrate

Question 7

hydrochlorothiazide (HCTZ), furosemide (Lasix)

Answer 7

Diuretics

Question 8

a low-ceiling thiazide diuretic used in the treatment of HTN

Answer 8

HCTZ of hydrochlorothiazide

Question 9

a high-ceiling loop diuretic used to treat CHF

Answer 9

furosemide (Lasix)

Question 10

propranolol (Inderol), metoprolol (Lopressor), carvedilol (Coreg)

Answer 10

beta-blockers

Question 11

captopril (Capoten), enalapril (Vasotec), lisinopril

Answer 11

ACE-inhibitors

Question 12

a group of drugs that have negative chronotropic (lowering the heart rate) effects

Answer 12

beta-blockers

Question 13

the first ACE-inhibitor

Answer 13

captopril (Capoten)

Question 14

ACE-I that came after captopril

Answer 14

enalapril (Vasotec)

Question 15

the ACE-I most often prescribed now

Answer 15

lisinopril

Question 16

losartan (Cozaar), and all the drugs ending in “sartan”

Answer 16

Angiotensin II rc blockers or ARBs

Question 17

verapamil (Calan)

Answer 17

CCBs (calcium channel blockers)

Question 18

renin, angiotensin II, aldosterone

Answer 18

endogenous hormones affected by some of these cardiovascular drugs

Question 19

secreted by the kidneys

Answer 19

renin

Question 20

secreted downstream from renin

Answer 20

angiotensin II

Question 21

adrenal gland hormone secreted further downstream from the others

Answer 21

aldosterone

Question 22

HTN drugs that can all be combined with a mild diuretic like HCTZ or with each other (i.e. “Capozide”–combo of capoten/captopril and a mild thiazide diuretic)

Answer 22

ACE-Is, ARBs, calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers

Question 23

hydralazine (Apresoline), the ‘race-based’ combo drug BiDil, and minoxidil (Rogaine)

Answer 23

other vasodilators

Question 24

an “old time” drug, mostly an arterial vasodilator

Answer 24

hydralazine (Apresoline)

Question 25

"race-based" combination drug that contains hydralazine and a nitroglycerin compound (isosorbide dinitrate/hydralazine)

Answer 25

BiDil

Question 26

vasodilator now marketed as Rogaine for hair regrowth

Answer 26

minoxidil

Question 27

digoxin (Lanoxin), dopamine and dobutamine

Answer 27

drugs that increae the force of contraction--positive inotropic

Question 28

the most common cardiac glycoside; positive inotropy but negative chronotropy

Answer 28

digoxin (Lanoxin)

Question 29

sympathetic agonists with positive inotropy and positive chronotropy, similar to epinephrine (NOT cardiac glycosides)

Answer 29

dopamine and dobutamine

Question 30

anticholinergic with positive chronotropic effects (because it lyses the parasympathetic nervous system), used to treat bradycardia

Answer 30

atropine

Question 31

statins, cholestyramine (Questran), Vitamin B3 (niacin/Niaspan), and Omega 3 fatty acids

Answer 31

Lipid-lowering drugs

Question 32

long acting formulation approved specifically to help lower triglyceride levels

Answer 32

Vitamin B3 niacin (Niaspan)

Question 33

a binding resin and an "inert" drug; neither digested nor absorbed into the blood stream but formulated to bind things in the gut and go through

Answer 33

cholestyramine (Questran)

Question 34

HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors; atorvastatin (Lipitor) and simvastatin (Zocor)

Answer 34

statins

Question 35

morphine (Duramorph) and high potassium cardiooplegia solution

Answer 35

mescellaneous cardiovascular drugs

Question 36

used to treat the pain of a heart attack

Answer 36

morphine (Duramorph)

Question 37

injected into the heart to induce cardiac arrest during open heart surgery

Answer 37

high potassium cardioplegia solution