MARK KLIMEK LECTURE #3 – CARDIAC

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MARK KLIMEK LECTURE #3 – CARDIAC Calcium Channel Blockers are like Valium for your heart (calms your heart down) CCB’s are negative inotropics, negative dromotropics, and negative chromotrop... ics.  Weaken, slow down, and depress the heart. Cardiac depressant. They treat: A, A-A, and A-A-A  Anti-hypertensive – relaxes heart and blood vessels – BP goes down  Anti-Angina – relaxes the heart – decreases oxygen demand – pain goes away  Anti-Atrial-Arrhythmia= it treats everything atrial related = treats supra ventricular tachycardia (supra means above, above the ventricle is the atrial). Side effects: Headache & Hypotension Headache (vasodilation in the brain) Hypotension (relaxes the heart and the blood vessels) Monitor BP intermittently. If systolic is <100, hold! Names of CCB’s:  Names ending in “dipine” (You're dipping in the calcium channel) amlodipine, felodipine, isradipine, nicardipine, nifedipine, nisoldipine  Verapamil, Diltiazem, Cardizem [Cardizem = Continuous IV drip]  For drip, monitor BP continuously. If systolic BP is 98 titrate it down. [Show More]

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