COLLEGE OF NURSING

DRUG STUDY

Dosage and Mechanism of

Drug Name Indication Contraindication Side effect Nursing responsibilities
Frequency Action
Adult: It relaxes the  Relief and  Hypersensitivity  Nervousness -Observe rights in medication
Oral – 2 or 4 mg (1- smooth prevention of administration such as giving the
 Tachyarrhythmia  Restlessness right drug to the right patient
2 tsp syrup) three to muscles of the bronchospasm
four times a day bronchioles in patients using the right route and at the
s  Tremor
right time.
ER tablets – 4-8 mg allowing with reversible
 General  Headache -Monitor ECG, serum electrolytes
every 12 hours maximum obstructive and thyroid function test results.
Inhalation – 1 or 2 passage of air. airway disease anesthesia with  Insomnia -Raise side rails up because client
inhalation/s every 4- It decreases  Inhalation: might be restless and drowsy
halogenated  Chest pain
6 hours (1 aerosol intracellular Treatment of because of this drug.
dispenser = 90 mcg) calcium which acute attacks hydrocarbons  Palpitations -Keep room well-lit and see to it
Prevention of will relax the of that client has a person with him
 Unstable  Angina closely in case of vertigo.
exercise-induced smooth bronchospasm
Salbutamol bronchospasms – 2 muscles of the  Prevention of vasomotor -Assess lung sounds, PR and BP
 Arrhythmias
inhalations 15 lungs by before drug administration and
exercise-
Ventolin system disorders  Hypertension during peak of medication.
minutes prior to mobilizing induced
-Provide oral care or let patient
exercise kinase through bronchospasm  Hypertension  Nausea and gurgle after inhalation to get rid
Pediatric Clients activation of  Unlabeled use: of the unpleasant aftertaste of
Oral – 2 mg three or cyclic-3’5’-  Coronary vomiting
Adjunct in the inhalation.
four times a day adenosine treating Insufficiency  Hyperglycemia -Auscultate lungs for presence of
Inhalation – 10-15 monophosphat serious adventitious breath sounds that
kg, use 1.25 mg e (cAMP).  History of CVA  Hypokalemia may signal pulmonary edema,
hyperkalemia
twice or thrice a day in dialysis  COPD patients airway resistance or
by nebulisation; patients; bronchospasm.
with
degenerative
heart disease