Today I want to talk about nine common classes of cardiac meds, that you’re going to need to understand, and you’re going to need to know at a very high level.
We’re going to talk about these meds at a very upper level, what’s going on, why we give these meds, and really what you need to know about them. Again, we’re going to cover nine common classes of cardiac medications.
A lot of times with our heart attack we have that mnemonic, MONA, which is immediate treatment for heart attack.
One of that’s going to be the “N” in MONA is nitrates. What it’s going to do is it’s really going to try to massively dilate the vessel to allow blood to flow. That’s when we would give it, we could give it for that.
Also, if someone has a hypertensive crisis we can give them hydralzine. There’s a lot of things that we can do, and what these, the primary primary purpose of these is to relax the vessels.
