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What effect does a pure agonist cause? |
A 100% positive reaction |
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What are the side effects of salbutamol? |
Bronchodilation Tachycardia Agitation
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What is the best drug to prevent/reduce the imflammatory response in asthma?? |
Prednisolone- Steroid |
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What is the best anticholingergenic drug used to treat COPD |
Ipratropium - affects parasympathetic system |
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What is the best drug to treat candiadiasis (thrush) |
Nyastatin |
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Why do they use levodopa instead of dopamine for parkinsons? |
Dopamine does not cross the blood brain barrier. |
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What is the half life of levodopa? |
Half an hour. |
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What are donepezil, galentamine and rivastigmine used to treat? |
Alzheimers |
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Why is memantine only used rarely in alzheimers? |
Because it destroys nerve cells |
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What are the side effects of the alzheimers drugs galantamine and rivastigmine? |
Affects the parasympathetic nervous system- bradycardia, reduced blood pressure, weight loss, cardiac issues |
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What drug is often given to people with nerve pain? |
Amitriptyline at night- antidepressant |
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What happens if you stop anti-depressants suddenly? |
Your body has become used to not having to produce as many neurons because the anti-depressants are making artifical ones which leaves a massive imbalance |
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What do interneurons do? |
Transmit impulses between neurone in the brain |
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What does serotonin effect? |
Controls the sleep wake cycle, temperature, pain perception, aggression and nausea and vomiting |
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Where is acetylcholine found? |
Found in skeletal pathways Linked to degnerative diseases
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What does noradrenaline control? |
Sense of arousal, altertness and mood |
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What does dopamine control? |
Mood, motivation and sexual behaviour |
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What happens if someone has too much dopamine? |
Psychosis can form- distrupts PNS |
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Where is Gamma aminobutyric acid found? |
Central nervous system
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What type of drugs are benzopiazines? |
Anti-anxiety drugs |
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How to benzodiazepines work? |
By depressing part of the brain that regulates activity levels- increasing the action of a substance called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) |
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What does anaesthesia provide? |
Analgesia Amnesia Immobilisation
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What are the routes of anaesthesia? |
Inhalation Intravenous Local |
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When are inhalation anaesthetic used? |
Labour bone Injury
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As well as anaesthetic what else is used in surgery? |
Neuromuscular blocking agents |
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What is the difference between non- depolarising and depolarising neuromuscular blocking agents? |
You have to wait for depolarising agents to wear off.
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Neuromuscular blocking agents non depolarising? |
Atracurium Vecuronium Pancuronium Tubocurarine |
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Depolarising neuromuscular blocking agents? |
Suxemethonium- mostly used in intensive care for brain injury
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What is propofol? Think MJ |
Induction agent used to get patients to sleep |
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What is fentanyl? |
A pain medicine used beore during and after surgery |
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What is succinylcholine? |
A muscle relaxant that makes placement of breathing tubes and surgery easier to achieve |
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What is halothane? |
An anesthesia gase used to keep patients asleep for surgery delivered though a breathing tube or mask |
