Related Essays

  • Cardiomyopathy: Cardiovascular Disease

    For restrictive cardiomyopathy, you are required to pay attention to your salt and water intake and monitor your weight daily. You may be prescribed medicati...

  • Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Essay

    There is no specific treatment for primary restrictive cardiomyopathy; the main goal is to treat the heart failure symptoms caused by restrictive cardiomyopa...

  • Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    The pharmacological treatment: the medications that doctor may prescribe it to treat the cardiomyopathies, the list includes (Bhf.org.uk, 2017): • Diuretics,...

  • Cardiomyopathy Research Paper

    Angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and blood-thinning medication are administered and surgically implanted devices are used. ACE inhibitors are e...

  • Informative Speech On Heart Failure

    Doctors usually treat heart failure with a combination of medications. Depending on you symptoms, the patient might have taken one or more medication. Some o...

  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Essay

    Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the second most common form of heart muscle disease and is the number one cause of sudden cardiac death in young athlete...

  • Drug Therapy Case Study

    The recommended medications to use include diuretics, ACEI or ARB, beta blockers and aldosterone antagonists. CD currently takes furosemide and lisinopril ...

  • Heart Failure: A Diuretic Analysis

    Introduction: Heart Failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome that affects the structural and functional capacity of the ventricle to load or expel blood. ...

  • Knowing Your Symptoms (HF)

    Discuss patient’s knowledge of his/her medication: Patient is able to understand what the medication is for and what it is doing for their health. These are ...

  • Angiotensin-Aldosterone System: A Summary

    This is negative inotropy, dromotropy and chronotropy respectively. Therefore calcium channel antagonists lower systemic vascular resistance by causing vaso...

  • Shuffle
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Alphabetize
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Front First
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Both Sides
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
  • Read
    Toggle On
    Toggle Off
Reading...
Front

Card Range To Study

through

image

Play button

image

Play button

image

Progress

1/3

Click to flip

Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;

Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;

H to show hint;

A reads text to speech;

3 Cards in this Set

  • Front
  • Back

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Calcium Channel Blockers:


Verapamil (Calan) CCB of choice. Decreases ventricular contractility and improves myocardial relaxation reducing ventricular wall tension resulting in increased ventricular filling.

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

DO NOT USE: positive inotropes. Dioxin (Lanoxin), dobutamine (Dobutrex), dopamine (Intropin), milirinone (Primacar), epinephrine & norepinephrine (Levophed).

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Anitdysrhythmics : Amiodarone (Cordarone) useful for ventricular or atrial dysrhythmias in both obstructive and non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.