To avoid risk for falls, the nurse should always advise patients who are taking HTN
drugs to do what?
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Rise slowly from sitting or lying positions
Drugs that effect the force of contractility
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Inotropic drugs
True or False: All direct vasodilators cause reflex tachycardia.
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True.
How do diuretics relieve symptoms of heart failure?
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By reducing fluid overload and decreasing blood pressure
ACE is known to breakdown this natural meditator of inflammation and pain. When this
can't be broken down due do an ACE inhibitor, angioedema can result.
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Bradykinin
Male patients on these drugs should be advised to discontinue them while taking
nitrates or any drug that causes vasodilation
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Erectile dysfunction drugs
What were the drugs of choice used to treat heart failure before ACE inhibitors?
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Cardiac glycosides (digoxin)
Kussmaul respirations and fruity breath smell are indications that the body is
experiencing what condition?
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DKA
Prototype drug of sulfonylureas
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glyburide
Name the 2 non-dihydropyridines
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, verapamil (prototype)
diltiazem
This form of HTN is attributed to no known cause and is the most commonly
diagnnosed form
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Essential (Primary) hypertension
Contraindications for incretin enhancers
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DO NOT GIVE to type 1 diabetes or renal impaired patients
What should the nurse advise a patient who is on HTN drugs not perform until they
know how the drug will affect them?
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Driving
A HbA1C lab value of what indicates diabetes?
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drugs to do what?
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Rise slowly from sitting or lying positions
Drugs that effect the force of contractility
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Inotropic drugs
True or False: All direct vasodilators cause reflex tachycardia.
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True.
How do diuretics relieve symptoms of heart failure?
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By reducing fluid overload and decreasing blood pressure
ACE is known to breakdown this natural meditator of inflammation and pain. When this
can't be broken down due do an ACE inhibitor, angioedema can result.
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Bradykinin
Male patients on these drugs should be advised to discontinue them while taking
nitrates or any drug that causes vasodilation
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Erectile dysfunction drugs
What were the drugs of choice used to treat heart failure before ACE inhibitors?
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Cardiac glycosides (digoxin)
Kussmaul respirations and fruity breath smell are indications that the body is
experiencing what condition?
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DKA
Prototype drug of sulfonylureas
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glyburide
Name the 2 non-dihydropyridines
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, verapamil (prototype)
diltiazem
This form of HTN is attributed to no known cause and is the most commonly
diagnnosed form
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Essential (Primary) hypertension
Contraindications for incretin enhancers
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DO NOT GIVE to type 1 diabetes or renal impaired patients
What should the nurse advise a patient who is on HTN drugs not perform until they
know how the drug will affect them?
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Driving
A HbA1C lab value of what indicates diabetes?
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