Pharm 6-10 Flashcards
(44 cards)
When is an inflammatory response bad?
If prolonged, trigger scar tissue
Side effects of corticoid steroids?
Elevated blood glucose
What is the important thing to teach when taking CT?
Don’t stop suddenly
Monitor chest pain, take as described?
Celebrex
What drug does narcan reverse?
Opioids
How do NSAIDS affect the blood?
Decrease clotting
What happens when children take aspirin containing drugs?
REYES Syndrome
No medical purpose, most potential for addiction
Schedule 1
Lowest potential for addiction, does have medicicinal use
Schedule 5
Redness, swelling, warm, pain, decreased function
Inflammation
Antihistamine
Diphenhydramine
• Three anticholinergic side effect
dry mouth, drowsiness, urinary retention
Gabapentin
Neurontin, anticonvulsant drug
How does it effect children?
Aggression in children
Is pain in the elderly considered normal?
No
Teach the elderly about what?
Pain and pain control
How do morphine and other opioid medicines work to relieve pain?
Attach to receptors, alter how we perceive pain
When opioids are taking for acute pain is it possible that they come addicted?
No
Best to take with blood thinner?
Tylenol
Side effects of opioids?
Constipation, increase fluid intake and fiber diets
Drug tolerance, what happens within our bodies when we become drug tolerance?
Increases the rate of elimination
Pregnant women taking opioids?
Birth defects
Side effects of NSAIDS
Stomach ulcers, thin blood, high bp
Culture insensitivity, why collect before antibiotic therapy?
specific bacteria and treat w/ most appropriate antibiotic