Phenytoin

thanatos meaning death. The term is usually used to describe ending the life of an individual animal in a way that minimizes or eliminates pain and distress.” (What Is Euthanasia,AVMA.org) The euthanasia drug is made up of “pentobarbital sodium and phenytoin sodium.” (Drug.com) Shelter’s choose to use this option when they are forced to make space for the multiple pets coming through their doors everyday. Shelters use this drug to humanely kill the animals who have been there too long. Usually…

Case Presentation This section of the paper focuses on a 24 years old Caucasian male who was transferred to Advocate Christ Medical Center from an outside hospital after being hit by a vehicle. According to the EMS who arrived at the scene, the patient was unresponsive with a GCS of 3. Per protocol, the patient was then intubated to sustain their airway. The patient received a CT of the head that revealed bifrontal and bitemporal hemorrhagic contusions along with multiple facial fractures. The…

Osteoarthritis Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition of the joint cartilage, the smooth cushion of gristle found in all of our normal joints (Porter, 277). Inflammation does not occur but bare bone ends begin to rub against each other. The British call it osteoarthrosis, because of the fact it is not an inflammatory condition. The most common type of arthritis next to rheumatoid arthritis. This arthritis tends to occur in the hand joints, spine, hips, knees, and great toes. The lifetime…

Kapp, Maurer, Auwärter, Winkelmann, and Hermanns-Clausen (2011) describe a case of a 25-year-old male who developed jaundice and pruritus after ceasing to ingest Kratom. The patient had been using Kratom acquired “via the Internet (www.thai-kratom)” for two weeks (Kapp et al., 2011, para. 3). On the second day after having quit taking the Kratom powder the man began experiencing subjective fever and chills. Restlessness and insomnia was also reported by the patient, possibly signalling…

gastrointestinal discomfort. Drug interactions can occur: antacids may delay absorption; cimetide interferes with metabolism of benzodiazepines, causing increased sedation; CNS depressants, such as alcohol and barbiturates, cause increased sedation; serum phenytoin concentration may build up because of decreased…

Some drugs such as antidepressants and some heart medicines can affect oral health because they minimize the flow of saliva that has a protective effect on teeth and gums. Some medications such as phenytoin and cyclosporine can cause a buildup of gum tissue, a condition called gingival overgrowth. Gum tissue becomes so swollen that it starts to grow over the teeth. Swollen gum tissue forms a favorable environment for bacteria, which can hurt surrounding…

The main cause of gum disease is bacterial plaque. Our mouths are full of bacteria. These bacteria, along with salivary proteins, constantly form a sticky colorless substance on teeth called plaque. When you eat or drink foods or beverages with sugars or starches, the bacteria excreted acids that attack your tooth enamel. The plaque is so sticky that it remains the acids in contact with your teeth, in time breaking down the enamel, so that tooth decay happens. Poor nutrition such as a diet high…

enzyme reaction on substrate concentration is given by the Michaelis-Menten equation. During the metabolism the Nonlinearity is achieved due to many mechanisms, including capacity limited metabolism, which is explored with two examples, alcohol and phenytoin. Both compounds rapidly permeate the hepatocyte and achieve distribution equilibrium, with unbound drug in the circulating plasma virtually equal to that in the hepatocyte, in which small changes in dose administration leads to large…

Different drugs can influence the expulsion of chlorpromazine from your body, which may influence how chlorpromazine works. Illustrations incorporate pindolol, propranolol, medications to treat seizures, (for example, carbamazepine, phenobarbital, phenytoin), among others. Numerous medications other than chlorpromazine may influence the heart cadence (QT prolongation), including amiodarone, dofetilide, pimozide, procainamide, quinidine, sotalol, macrolide anti-infection agents, (for example,…

Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the nervous system. Some of the symptoms of epilepsy are periodic or reoccurring seizures which are triggered by sudden episodes of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Approximately 30% of the 200,000 new cases reported every year begin in childhood particularly around the time of adolescence (Marshall). Another period of relatively high incidences is in people over 65 years old (Marshall). During a seizure many nerve cells with a specific region of the…