Why hello there, future Respiratory Therapist! Thank you so much for downloading this cheat sheet. This one is all about the obstructive diseases that you need to know for RT School. And it you learn this information now, it will definitely carry over for when you start seeing patient of your own. What is an obstructive disease?
- Having an unambiguous standard of names for each drug is important because many different brand names may sell a drug, or a branded medication may contain more than one drug. Common Drug Stems Cheat Sheet. Below is a cheat sheet table with three columns: Drug Stem, Drug Class, and an Example. Each stem has hyphens at one or both ends of its.
- Why hello there, future Respiratory Therapist! Thank you so much for downloading this cheat sheet. This one is all about the obstructive diseases that you need to know for RT School. And it you learn this information now, it will definitely carry over for when you start seeing patient of your own. What is an obstructive disease?
Free Drug Guide
- Adult (part 1): (Ideal VT, setting up vent, optimal PEEP, when to stop wean, considerations for readiness to wean patient from ventilator.
- Adult (part 2): (RT formulas, ARDS vent strategy, Guidelines to adjusting vents, EKGs part 1, determining level of consciousness)
- Adult (part 3): (INterpreting EKGs part 2, Adjusting Flow Term,
- Adult (part 4) : (Indications for calling Dr., Interpreting lab results, Interpreting EKGs part 3
- Adult (part 5) : Risk for pneum, DIC, Sepsis and pnuemonia
- Neonatal (part 1): (Guidelines to setting up neo vent, normal neo gases, ideal neo VTs)
- Neonatal (part 2): (Determining neo ETT, laryngoscope, where to secure ETT, and VTs; setting up CPAP; Guidelines to setting up peds vent
Protocols:
- Oxygen protocol
Materials for patient use:
Respiratory Therapy Drug Guide Cheat Sheet And Ampersand
Respiratory Drugs are designed to assist you breathe better while treating different kinds of breathing problems such as wheezing and respiratory shortness. These include inhaling medications with nebulizer devices in a mist-like form. Various kinds of medicines can be recommended by doctors for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cystic fibrosis, asthma and more. These include the following:
Respiratory Therapy Flow Sheet
Many respiratory drugs are given by inhalation, although enteral, parenteral, transdermal, or topical routes of administration may be used for some agents. Giving medications by the inhaled route has several advantages over systemic administration: a smaller dose can be used, adverse effects are often reduced, the drug is delivered quickly to lung tissue or the bloodstream, administration is painless, and delivery is usually safe and convenient.
Bronchodilators:
These are the most frequently used inhaled medications. Bronchodilators can be subdivided into sympathomimetic (adrenergic) drugs and parasympatholytic (anticholinergic) drugs, as well as being classified as short acting or long acting. The adrenergic drugs stimulate the sympathetic nervous system, while anticholinergic drugs block the parasympathetic system. Adrenergic agents work to cause bronchodilation; anticholinergic drugs block bronchoconstriction. Short-acting drugs are effective for 4 to 6 hours and long-acting bronchodilators generally last about 12 hours.
Albuterol is a commonly used bronchodilator and is a short-acting ß2-adrenergic agonist (SABA). Salmeterol is delivered in a dry-powder inhaler (DPI) and is a long-acting ß2-adrenergic agonist (LABA). Levalbuterol is the R enantiomer of racemic albuterol and is a frequently used inhaled drug for bronchodilation. This is a single-isomer drug (the other isomer has been removed). More single-isomer medications are being developed and released for use because these drugs tend to reduce adverse effects such as tremors and tachycardia.