Unit 2 Drug Cards

• Class: Direct-Acting Cholinergic Agonist
• MOA: Directly stimulates muscarinic and nicotinic receptors
• Therapeutically of little importance except topically in treatment of glaucoma
• Side Effects: Diarrhea, Diaphoresis(sweating), Miosis, Bronchospasm, Urinary urgency, Salivation

Class Direct_Acting Cholinergic Agonist

MOA: Directly stimulates muscurainic receptrs on the gastrointestinal and urinary smooth muscle but has a stronger structure that makes it last longer in the body.

Therapeutic: Reflux esophagitis & urinary retention (post operative, post partum)

Side Effects: Diarrhea, Diaphoresis(sweating), Miosis, Bronchospasm, Urinary urgency, Salivation

• Class: Direct-Acting Cholinergic Agonist
• MOA:directly stimulates muscarinic receptors

Therapeutic use are primarily in ophthalmologySide Effects: Diarrhea, Diaphoresis(sweating), Miosis, Bronchospasm, Urinary urgency, Salivation


*Drug of choice in emergency lowering of intraocular pressure (glaucoma)

• Class: Indirect-Acting Cholinergic Agonist
• MOA: Stimulate muscarinic and nicotinic sites
• Therapeutic Uses: Stimulation of the bladder and GI tract. Antidotes for overdoses of anticholinergic drugs like Atropine, antipsychotic drugs, antidepressants, tubocurarine. Treatment of Myasthenia gravis(deterioration of Nmreceptors at the neuromuscular

Side Effects: Diarrhea, Diaphoresis(sweating), Miosis, Bronchospasm, Urinary urgency, Salivation

• MOA: High affinity for muscarinic receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: Mydiratic effects, antispasmodic effects(relaxes GI and bladder), antisecretory effects before surgery and in asthma or COPD, bronchdilating effects and an antidote for cholinergic agonists
• Side effects: blurred vision, dry mouth, constipation, urinary retention, drowsiness, tachycardia

• Class: Neurumuscular Blocking Drugs (somatic)
• MOA Block cholinergictransmission betwenen moter ner endings and nicotinic receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: helpful (adjuvent) drug used in surgery to relax muscle

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic agonist
• MOA: interacts with both a and b receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: At low doses vasodilation b predominates. at high doses vasoconstriction a is strongest...Acute asthma
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Directacting adrenergic agonists
• MOA:binds with a1, a2, b1
• Therapeutic uses: treatment of shock
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic agonist
• MOA: interacts with both b1 and b2 receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: As bronchodilator in asthma & as cardiac stimulant
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic agonist
• MOA: Interacts with b1/dopaminergic
• Therapeutic uses: treatment of shock
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic
• MOA: acts on b1
• Therapeutic Uses: treatment of congestive heart failure
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Directs acting adrenergic
• MOA: acts on a1
• Therapeutic Uses: nasal decongestant

Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Direct Acting adrenergic agonist
• MOA: stimulates b2>b1 receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: treatment of bronchospasm
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Direct acting adrenergi agonist
• MOA: stimulates B2 receptors
• Therapeutic Uses: treatment of bronchospasma and premature labor
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: Mixed action adrenergic agonists
• MOA: releases stored noraepinephrine from nerve endings. Directly stimulates both a and b receptors and CNS.
• Therapeutic uses: treatment of asthma
• Side affects:cardiac arrythmias headace hyperactivity

• Class: adrenergic antagonists
• MOA: blocks a1 and a1
• Therapeutic Uses: used in pheochromocytoma(adrenal tumors)
• Side affects: Hypotension, Bradycardia

• Class: adrengic antagonists
• MOA: Blocks a1
• Therapeutic uses:for benign prostatic hypertrophy
• Side affects: Hypotension, Bradycardia

• Class: adrenergic antagonist
• MOA: blocks a1A receptor
• Therapeutic uses: helps urine flow in bladder
• Side affects: Hypotension, Bradycardia

• Class: adrenergic antagonist
• MOA: Competitively blocks b1 and b2 receptors
• Therapeutic uses: Hypertension, angina pectoris
• Side effects: Hypotension, bradycardia

• Class: adrenergic antagonist
• MOA: competitively blocks b1 receptors(cardioselective)
• Therapeutic uses: hypertension
• Side effects: Hypotension, bradycardia

• Class: adrenergic partial agonist as blockers
• MOA: weakly stimulates both b1 and b2 receptors, but inhibit stimulation by epinephrine and norepinephrine, reesulting in a much more diminished effect.
• Therapeutic uses: hypertension
• Side effects: Hypotension, bradycardia

• Class: adrenergica partial agonist as a blocker
• MOA: blocks b1,b2 receptors and a1 receptors
• Therapeutic uses: hypertension
• Side effects: hypotension, bradycardia

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic agonists with B2 activity
• MOA: inhibits the release of histamine from mast cells
• Therapeutic uses: Mild asthma
• Side effect

• Class: Cholinergic antagonists
• MOA: Blocks muscurinic receptors
• TherapeuticUses: Emphysema/asthma
• SideEffects: cough, dizziness, drymouth

• Class: beta adrenergic antagonist
• MOA: blocks beta receptors on sympathethic nerves
• Therapeutic Uses: reduces force of contraction of the heart therby lowering drug pressure

• Class: Direct acting adrenergic agonists with b2 activity
• MOA: it is a broncho dilater that focuses on b2
• Therapuetic uses: asthma reatment

• Class: CORTICOSTEROIDS
• MOA:decrease number of cells involved in airway inflammation macrophages and basophils
• Therapeutic uses: allerginic rhinitis asthma
• Side effects:burning itching irritation

• Class:direct acting agonists b2 activity
• MOA: relaxes smooth muscle of broinchioles
• Therapeutic uses: Asthma treatment
• Side effects: burining itching irritation