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Lecture 11 - Cardiac Glycosides Flashcards

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1
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List some cardiac glycosides

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  • digoxin
  • digitoxin
  • ouabain
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What are cardiac glycosides indicated for?

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  • CHF
  • atrial fibrillation
  • atrial flutter
  • PAT (paroxysmal atrial tachycardia)
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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

What has higher BA?

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digitoxin

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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

What has larger Vd?

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Digoxin

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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

Which has more renal elimination?
Which has more hepatic metabolism?

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Digoxin: 60-80% renal elimination

Digitoxin: 80% hepatic metabolism

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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

Which has smaller half life?

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Digoxin

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Digoxin distributes into tissues such as the ______.

This is good for therapeutic effect but bad for toxic effect

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myocardium

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Cardiac glycosides interact with certain ______ and can cause a 2-fold serum increase in cardiac glycoside concentration - leading to potential toxicity

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antibiotics

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Mechanism of action of cardiac glycosides?

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  • inhibition of Na+

- K+-ATPase pump

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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

Which has longer onset of action?

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digitoxin

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Digoxin vs. Digitoxin:

Which has longer time until maximum effect

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digitoxin

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What is the digitalis effect?

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-scooping of the ST segment

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What are the effects on the parasympathetic system?

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-increased release of acetylcholine

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What are the effects on the sympathetic system?

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-increased efferent sympathetic discharge

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What is the toxic dose of digoxin in a child?

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1mg (few leaves of oleander or foxglove)

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What is the toxic dose of digoxin in an adult?

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3mg

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What are digoxin toxic levels?

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> 2ng/mL

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What are risk factors for toxicity?

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  • Drug interactions

- Disease

19
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What drug interactions increase risk for toxicity?

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  • Amiodarone (inhibits renal tubular secretion of digoxin)
  • Antibiotics (decrease population of colonic bacteria)
  • Quinidine
  • Verapamil
20
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What diseases increase risk for toxicity?

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  • renal failure
  • MI
  • electrolyte imbalances
  • mortality is 3-25% higher in the elderly
21
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What are signs and symptoms of ACUTE digoxin overdose?

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  • vomiting
  • hyperkalemia
  • sinus bradycardia
  • sinoatrial arrest
  • second or third degree AV block
  • ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation
22
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digoxin toxicity causes _____ myocardial hypercalcemia

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intracellular

23
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What are signs and symptoms of CHRONIC digoxin intoxication?

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  • visual disturbances
  • weakness
  • sinus bradycardia
  • atrial fibrillation
  • ventricular arrhythmias
  • accelerated junctional tachycardia
  • paroxysmal atrial tachycardia
  • hypokalemia and hypomagnesemia (from use of diuretics)
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How do we manage the intoxicated patient ?

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Emergency and supportive measures:

  • protect airways, assist ventilation
  • treat hyperkalemia (insulin
  • treat bradycardia or heart block (use atropine - if unresponsive then use antibodies to digoxin)
  • treat ventricular tachyarrhythmias
  • decontamination (gastric emptying or activated charcoal)
  • enhanced elimination (MDAC)
  • Antidotes - digoxin-specific antibody fragments (Fab) DigiFab
  • Monitoring of digoxin levels
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Why would dialysis not really work for digoxin?
- it has high Vd so it is not really in the plasma * could still be useful if you can lower the plasma levels just a little bit when you're dealing with life-threatening concentrations of Digoxin overdose
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Why don't you monitor digoxin levels after you give the antidote?
bc Dig levels will go WAY up because of digoxin-antibody complex
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Digoxin-specific antibody fragments (Fab) are indicated for the management of patients with toxicity related to what drugs?
- digoxin - digitoxin - natural cardiac glycosides (oleander, toad venom)
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Fab have high ____
specificity
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Fab have sufficient cross-reactivity for other ____ _____
cardiac glycosides
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Describe dose and administration of DigiFab
- vials contain 40mg of purified, lyophilized, ovine digoxin-specific Fab to be reconstituted with 4 mL water for IV - administration: infusion over 15' to 2 hours (at least 30')
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What do DigiFab antibodies bind to?
intravascular free digoxin *the binding affinity of DigiFab for digoxin >> than the affinity of digoxin for the ATPase
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DigiFab diffuses into the ____ space (3-fold larger Vd)
interstitial
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DigiFab: | -time to onset of response ?
19 min (0-60 min)
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DigiFab: | -time to complete response?
88 min (30-360min)
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Each vial of DigiFab binds ____ mg of digoxin
0.5
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How do you determine the # vials you need if you know the digoxin serum concentration?
of vials = digoxin serum conc (ng/mL) x patient weight (kg) / 100
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How do you determine the # of vials you need if you know the amount ingested?
of vials = amount ingested (mg) / 0.5 (mg/vial)
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Roughly how many vials for an acute ingestion?
10-20 vials (both adult and child)
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Roughly how many vials for a chronic toxicity in adults?
3-6 vials
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Roughly how many vials for a chronic toxicity in children?
1-2 vials
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What should DigiFab be used for?
- life-threatening cardiac glycosides - patients with progressive bradydysrhythmias (severe sinus bradycardia or second or third degree heart block unresponsive to atropine - patients with severe ventricular dysrhythmias (VT or VF) - patients with potassium > 5.5 mEq/mL - Acute ingestions - >4mg in healthy child (>0.1mg/kg) - >10mg in healthy adult - Serum concentrations in > 10ng/mL (lower in the elderly) - rapid progression of clinical signs and symptoms (cardiac and GI effects) and rising potassium levels
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in cardiac toxicity, you do not see metabolic ______
acidosis
43
What is the Chinese medication made of toad venom also known as "love stone"
Chan su *contains bufadienolide (cardiac glycoside - toxicity similar to that of digoxin)
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if potassium is not high, you know it's ____ toxicity
chronic

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