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In approximately 150 words, please reflect upon all the medications we covered this week and how they relate to the Respiratory and cardiovascular systems.
What are the common classifications of drugs used in these systems?
What makes a drug family?
Why is it important to know and understand?
What are the common classifications of drugs used in these system?
Cardiac medication
-Anticoagulants.
-Antiplatelet Agents
-ACE Inhibitors.
-Angiotensin receptor blockers
-Calcium Channel Blockers.
-Cholesterol-lowering medications.
- anti arrythmic drugs
Respiratory system medication
-bronchodilators
- anti cholinergic
-mast cell stabilisers
- corticosteroids
-theophylline
- methyl xanthines
What makes a drug family?
-drugs with common mechanism of action( statin they inhibit HMG CoA reductase enzyme)
But there are other drugs too which lower the cholesterol level but uses another mechanism
- drugs with common chemical structure
-depending on their outcome eg: cns stimulants
- which condition they are used to treat
Eg: anti arrythmic drug
Why is it important to know and understand?
- to understand the use of drug
- to use alternative s
-helps to know the drug interactions
- one drug can be used for two or three symptoms