Simvastatin is a lipid-lowering drug used to treat hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and lowering cholesterol levels. Common side effects include headache, GI issues, and muscle pain. Nursing implications include monitoring nutrition, bowel habits, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels.
Citicoline is a neuroprotective drug used to treat cerebrovascular accidents by enhancing neurotransmission and improving neuronal metabolism. It acts as a dopaminergic agonist and cholinergic agent. Nursing implications include carefully evaluating cardiovascular status before rapid administration.
Lactulose is an anti-allergic drug used to treat constipation and hepatic encephalopathy
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Simvastatin is a lipid-lowering drug used to treat hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and lowering cholesterol levels. Common side effects include headache, GI issues, and muscle pain. Nursing implications include monitoring nutrition, bowel habits, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels.
Citicoline is a neuroprotective drug used to treat cerebrovascular accidents by enhancing neurotransmission and improving neuronal metabolism. It acts as a dopaminergic agonist and cholinergic agent. Nursing implications include carefully evaluating cardiovascular status before rapid administration.
Lactulose is an anti-allergic drug used to treat constipation and hepatic encephalopathy
Simvastatin is a lipid-lowering drug used to treat hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and lowering cholesterol levels. Common side effects include headache, GI issues, and muscle pain. Nursing implications include monitoring nutrition, bowel habits, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels.
Citicoline is a neuroprotective drug used to treat cerebrovascular accidents by enhancing neurotransmission and improving neuronal metabolism. It acts as a dopaminergic agonist and cholinergic agent. Nursing implications include carefully evaluating cardiovascular status before rapid administration.
Lactulose is an anti-allergic drug used to treat constipation and hepatic encephalopathy
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Simvastatin is a lipid-lowering drug used to treat hypercholesterolemia and mixed dyslipidemia by inhibiting HMG-CoA reductase and lowering cholesterol levels. Common side effects include headache, GI issues, and muscle pain. Nursing implications include monitoring nutrition, bowel habits, triglycerides, and cholesterol levels.
Citicoline is a neuroprotective drug used to treat cerebrovascular accidents by enhancing neurotransmission and improving neuronal metabolism. It acts as a dopaminergic agonist and cholinergic agent. Nursing implications include carefully evaluating cardiovascular status before rapid administration.
Lactulose is an anti-allergic drug used to treat constipation and hepatic encephalopathy
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DRUG DRUG CLASS INDICATION ACTION CONTRAINDICATION DOSAGE NURSING IMPLICATIONS
AND ROUTEQ SIMVASTATIN Lipid-lowering Adjunct to dietary Inhibit the enzyme NS:Headache,asthenia Assess nutrition: Agent therapy in the 3-hydroxy- , fat, protein, management of primary methylglutaryl sleep disturbances carbohydrates hypercholesterolemia coenzyme A (HMG GI: Flatulence, and mixed dyslipidemia. CoA) reductase, diarrhea, abdominal Monitor bowel which is pain, cramps, pattern daily Reduction of responsible for constipation, nausea, lipids/cholesterol. catalyzing an early dyspepsia, heartburn, Monitor Reduces the risk for MI step in the liver failure triglycerides, and stroke sequelae. synthesis of the Respiratory: Sinusitis, cholesterol cholesterol. pharyngitis baseline Other: throughout THERAPEUTIC Rhabdomyolysis, treatment EFFECTS: acute renal failure, Precautions: Lowering total & arthralgia, myalgia Past liver disease, LDL cholesterol alcoholism, severe acute infections, trauma, severe metabolic disorders, electrolyte imbalances, elderly, renal disease DRUG STUDY 2
DRUG DRUG CLASS INDICATION ACTION CONTRAINDIC DOSAGE NURSING IMPLICATIONS
ATION AND ROUTE CITICOLINE Neuroprotec Treatment Pharmacology: Somazine contains as its Patients with 1 gm TIV The cardiovascular tive of cerebrovascul single active component, parasympathe q8h status of the patient CNS Drugs & ar accident in cytidine-5-diphosphate choline. CDP- tic hypertonia should be carefully Agents for acute and choline is a biologic product. It is found evaluatedbefore ADHD recovery phase, in the body and takes part in the rapidly administering symptoms and biosynthesis of phospholipids which mannitol since signs of cerebral integrate into the structures of the sudden expansion of insufficiency nervous system especially in the theextracellular fluid eg,dizziness, me membranes of the neurons. The may lead to mory loss, formation of phospholipids is needed for fulminating poor the re-structuring of cell membranes by congestive heart concentration, the damaged neurons. Citicoline is an failure. disorientation, interneuronal communication enhancer. Somazine must not recent cranial It increases the neurotransmission levels be administered trauma and their because it favors the synthesis and along with sequelae production speed of dopamine in the medicaments striatum, acting then as a dopaminergic containing agonist thru the inhibition of tyrosine- meclophenoxate hydroxylase. Citicoline acts as a presynaptic cholinergic agent which favors the synthesis of acetylcholine. It also decreases the release of serotonin. Citicoline improves neuronal metabolism in those cases where there is a neuronal deterioration due to degenerative, toxic or ischemic cause. The cause of poor neuronal metabolism is brought about by a decrease in neuronal activity which makes the astrocytes swell. Swelling is due to electrolyte imbalance. Active neurons release potassium ions. These are taken up by astrocytes (K+ buffers) and distributed to regions with less K+. When neuronal activity decreases, less K+ is released, astrocytes take up Na+ instead of K+. The hydrated Na+ is larger than the hydrated K+ and so the astrocyte swells. Improvement of neurometabolism is demonstrated by citicoline's ability of restoring the activity of mitochondrial ATPase and of membranal Na+/K+ ATPase. Citicoline also increases glucose incorporation aside from metabolism while at the same time decreasing blactate accumulation in the brain. Citicoline makes the neurons more active, causing the astrocytes to loosen their grip on the capillaries, thus improving microcirculation. By virtue of this action, citicoline has an indirect effect on microcirculation. It has the ability to slightly increase cerebral blood flow and exerts an anti-aggregation effect on platelets. DRUG STUDY 3 DRUG DRUG CLASS INDICATION ACTION CONTRAINDIC DOSAGE NURSING IMPLICATIONS ATION AND ROUTE LACTULOSE Anti-Allergic Constipatio Inhibits bacterial DNA gyrase thus Patient who 30 cc Assess condition Anti- n, preventing replication in susceptible require a ODHS before therapy and histamine salmonello bacteria low lactose oral reassess regularly sis. diet. thereafter to monitor Treatment Galactosemia drug’s effectiveness of hepatic deficiency. Monitor patient for encephalo Intestinal any adverse GI pathy obstruction. reactions, nausea, vomiting, diarr hea. Assess for adverse reactions for pt. with hepatic encelopathy: -regularly assess mental condition -monitor I & O -monitor for Inc. glucose level in diabetic patients