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NUR 125
Term | Definition |
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Vitamin K | antidote to warfarin (Coumadin) |
Protamine Sulfate | antidote to heparin |
MONA | Morphine Oxygen Nitroglycerin Aspirin |
alteplace | a fibrinolytic that lyses blood clots |
smoking | risk factor for many perfusion disorders |
atherosclerosis | inflammatory disease that begins with endothelial injury and progresses to the complicated lesion seen in advanced stages of the disease process |
arteriosclerosis | abnormal thickening, hardening, and loss of elasticity of arterial walls |
INR | monitors warfarin (Coumadin) therapeutic level |
aPTT | monitors Heparin therapeutic level |
Homan's Sign | discomfort behind the knee on forced dorsiflexion of the foot; a sign of thrombosis in the lower limb. |
troponin | proteins released from cardiac muscle when the muscle is damaged |
aspirin | prevents platelet aggregation |
nitroglycerin | dilate coronary arteries and increase blood flow |
Beta-adrenergic blockers | improve survival rates by decreasing the heart rate, reducing the work of the heart, and lessening the O2 demand of the myocardium |
ACE inhibitors | minimize the abnormal shaping or ventricular remodeling |
enoxaparin | prevent DVT after hip/knee replacement surgery, or abdominal surgery. use with warfarin to treat acute DVT, with or without PE, treatment of ST segment elevation MI. used to prevent ischemic complications of unstable angina&NSTEMI when with aspirin |
calcium channel blocker | fewer dysrhythmias, a slower rate of contraction of the heart, and relaxation of smooth muscle of blood vessels, causing vasodilation and reduced blood pressure. |