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pre-operative medication. Benzodizepines include chlordiazepoxide (Librium), diazepam (Valium), chlorazepatge dipotassium (Tranx ...
There are three types of depression: REACTIVE (EXOGENOUS) Reactive depression has a sudden onset and lasts for months and is usu ...
Anticholinergic Insomnia/ Category effect Sedation Hypotension GI distress Cardiotoxicity Seizures Agitation Tricyclic Antidepre ...
Anticholinergic Insomnia/ Category effect Sedation Hypotension GI distress Cardiotoxicity Seizures Agitation Atypical (Heterocyc ...
Monamine Oxidase Inhibitors (MAOI). The enzyme monoamine oxidase inactivates norepinephrine, dopamine, epinephrine, and serotoni ...
Anticonvulsants are medications that prevent or lessen the likelihood that a patient will experience convulsions, which are abno ...
Beta-adrenergic blockers (a) decrease blood pressure. (b) decrease the heart rate. (c) cause bronchoconstriction. (d) All of th ...
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16 CHAPTER 305 Narcotic Agonists Pain is something all of us feel; yet it is difficult for healthcare providers to accu- rately ...
For example, pain from sickle cell crisis can be debilitating and require the patient to receive a narcotic analgesic such as mo ...
Components of Pain There are two components of pain. These are the physical sensation of pain and the psychological component. T ...
Pain is classified in six ways. 1.Acute pain is the presence of severe discomfort or an uncomfortable sen- sation that has a sud ...
pain. There are a number of variations of this pain scale including the Face Rating Scale and the Color Scale. The face rating s ...
NARCOT IC ANALGESICS Narcotic analgesics are known as narcotic agonists, and act on the central nerv- ous system to provide reli ...
lower dependency potential than opioids and withdrawal symptoms are not as severe. Commonly used narcotic agonist-antagonists ar ...
Pharmacological pain treatment involves administering medication that relieves the patient of pain. There are four categories of ...
The color scale uses colors ranging from blue to red where blue is free- dom from pain and red is the most severe pain. (a) Tru ...
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17 CHAPTER 315 Immunologic Agents The body’s immune system is its natural defense against microorganisms that cause diseases (pa ...
and cells from transplant donors (human or animal). The immune system pre- vents an invasion from attacking internal organs and, ...
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