Digitalis

became impregnated with Mars who had no father. One story has it that fairies secrete themselves inside the flowers, and make a snapping sound when children, holding one end of the flower bell, suddenly strike the other end on their hand to hear the clap of fairy thunder, with which the disturbed and indignant fairy makes her escape from her retreat. Besides the fact that this all seems fictional and a bit silly but when some people see this flower this is exactly what comes to mind. It has been a myth and/or truth for centuries now. Foxgloves are also the source of several cardiac glycosides, the very digitalis used as a heart medication. With careful usage with physician guidance, digitalis has saved thousands of lives, but it is at the same time a dangerously toxic plant. It can cause heart palpitations, delerium, hallucinations, vomiting, & possibly death. The use of Digitalis purpurea extract containing cardiac glycosides for the treatment of heart conditions was first described in English language medical literature by William Withering, in 1785, which is considered the beginning of modern therapeutics. It is used to increase cardiac contractility and as an antiarrhythmic agent to control the heart rate, particularly in individuals affected by irregular (and often fast) atrial fibrillation and especially if they have been diagnosed with congestive heart failure. This flower is both harmful yet helpful which is why I believe it was placed behind the lupins, due to…

Conclusion My hypothesis stated that Digitalis and Furosemide will both work upon the patient’s left side heart failure. However, the experiment concluded that only Digitalis was effective upon the patient’s condition. Administration of Furosemide led to a relatively quick death of the patient. I did not expect the patient to die while being administered Furosemide. In fact, I had hypothesized that while both drugs would work effectively upon the patient, that the Furosemide would work at a…

likely having some pulmonary edema and pedal edema. Lasix would be helpful for this patient because it blocks the reuptake of sodium (Truven Health Analytics Micromedex Solutions, n.d.). By Lasix blocking the reabsorption of salt there is a higher osmolality which decreases the kidney's ability to reabsorb water. Since cardiac output is poor right now with this patient the kidney function is also not up to pair. Lasix would be a good choice for this situation because for a short period of time…

Jillian great post. Heart failure is when the heart is either not pumping enough blood into circulation or when the ventricles are not filling properly. Heart failure can result from many different conditions; some of the conditions that heart failure can result from are CAD, hypertension, dilated cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, and MI (Higgerson, n.d. & Mattson Porth, 2015). Since it seems that the right and left side of the heart are being affected now the provider could expect to see…

stimulates the effect of parasympathetic nerve stimulation by enhancing acetylcholine release. Atropine Sulfate is a drug that blocks the effect of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine which is liberated by the parasympathetic nerve endings. Cardiac muscle and skeletal muscle are both different in functionally and in fine structure. Epinephrine is the fight or flight neurotransmitter that is released to increase awareness. Digitalis is a drug that is prescribed for heart patients with congestive…

One of the roles of the sodium-potassium pump is to be a receptor for cardiotonic steroids (CTS) [3]. Cardiotonic Steroids consist of substances that contain steroid glycosides and they are inhibitors of the sodium-potassium pump. These cardiotonic steroids inhibit the pumping action produced by the enzymes of the sodium-potassium pump [3]. In the heart, these inhibitors increase the force of contraction and regulate contractility [10]. Digoxin Digoxin is from a digitalis plant which binds to…

In congestive heart failure (CHF), digitalis is usually introduced after diuretics and ACE inhibitors to increase the hearts contractility; to decrease its workload; and to improve symptoms as well as morbidity in affected patients (Quinn, 2006). And since Phil C. has normal levels of the medication present in his blood, it can be assumed that he is receiving it to treat congestive heart failure (CHF), which has caused his current…

Thank you for responding on my post. I agreed your statement that heart failure is complex diagnosis also pharmacological treatments depends on the condition type, severity, etiology. Heart failure is one of the most frequent cardiac diagnosis for hospitalization to patient, the undesirable effect of long term coronary artery disease also increase prevalence of heart failure (Ciccone,2016). Congestive heart failure (CHF) or heart failure most commonly refer as decompensation and cardiac…

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filter out all these electrolytes out of the blood and into the tubules of kidneys. The end product of these filtering processes is urine which is excreted from the body. Similarly, Gold Standard (2015) asserted that Furosemide is a loop diuretic that hinders sodium and chloride absorption by opposing the sodium/potassium and chloride co-transporter in the ascending limb of the loop of Henle. By the same token, furosemide's can lessened the peripheral vascular resistance and consequently reduced…