DRUG CLASSES Antivirals Antiretrovirals • Protease inhibitors • Nucleoside/nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs) • Nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTIs) • Entry inhibitors • Integrase inhibitors Compared with a fungus or…
DRUG CLASSES Anticholinergics Cholinergic blocking urinary antispasmodics Anti-Parkinson cholinergic blocking Respiratory cholinergic blocking Like adrenergic blocking drugs, the cholinergic blocking drugs have an effect on the autonomic nervous system. Cholinergic…
DRUG CLASSES Amphetamines Analeptics Anorexiants This chapter discusses the drugs that stimulate the central nervous system (CNS) and the nursing implications related to their administration. The three basic classes of…
DRUG CLASSES Primary antitubercular Secondary antitubercular PHARMACOLOGY IN PRACTICE Betty Peterson has come into the clinic with complaints of a chronic cough. Ms. Peterson requests that a TB skin test…
DRUG CLASSES Direct acting Indirect acting (anticholinesterase) Acetylcholine (ACh) is the substance that transmits nerve impulses across the parasympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. There are two types of…
Figure 2.1 In following the “five + 1 rights” of medication administration, you always verify that the “right patient” is receiving the medication by using two identifiers, one of which…
DRUG CLASSES Single sulfonamide agents Urinary anti-infective combinations Topical preparations PHARMACOLOGY IN PRACTICE Each chapter in this book features a specific case study corresponding to the drug therapy in each…
DRUG CLASSES Opioid antagonist An antagonist is a substance that counteracts the action of something else. A drug that is an opioid antagonist has a greater affinity for a cell…
DRUG CLASSES Fluoroquinolones As antibiotics become resistant to various microorganisms, researchers develop drugs that affect different portions of the bacterial cell. In Chapters 7 and 8 you read about how…
DRUG CLASSES Local anesthetics Preanesthetics General anesthetic agents Anesthesia is a loss of feeling or sensation. Anesthesia may be induced by various drugs that can bring about partial or complete…
