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What is the action of beta blokers medications with cardiac patients?

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Question added by Mina Samir Labib , Head Nurse of Cardiac Care Unit , Magdy yacoup foundation
Date Posted: 2013/11/30
SONIA THOMAS
by SONIA THOMAS , ICD insertion

IT IS A ANTI HYPERTENSIVE DRUG WHICH REDUSES THE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE. BETA BLOCKERS WORK BY BLOCKING THE EFFECT OF EPINEPHRINE AND SLOWING THE HEART RATE THERE BY DECREASING THE HEART DEMANDS FOR OXYGEN. SO THE LONG TERM USE OF THIS KIND OF MEDICATION WILL HELPS TO MANAGE CHRONIC HEART FAILURE.

Saad Tobat
by Saad Tobat , Charge nurse and Acting Head Nurse , AlMouasat Hospital

Controls  the heart rate ( arrhythmia) and blood pressure (hypertention)

tunaggina khan
by tunaggina khan , senior resident, registrar, assistant professor , Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital & Research Institute, Anwer Khan Modern Medical College & Hospital

it reduces heart rate and blood pressure. it is effective in arrhythmia. it has mortality benefit in heart failure and post MI patients. it reduces sympathetic tone.

 

Riyamol Rajan
by Riyamol Rajan , Registered Nurse , Sheraton Maldives Clinic

Betablockers are also known as Beta adrenergic blocking agents. They help to reduce blood pressure. When you take betablockers, your heart will beat slowly , with less force and there by reduce blood pressure.

El Sadat
by El Sadat , staff nurse in heart hospital , Hamad medical corporation

It will block beta cells that lead to decrease heart rate in cardiac patient

heba adel tantawy
by heba adel tantawy , in charge nurse , international cardiac centre

cardiac patient needs beta blockers to reduce heart beats (stroke volume)and maintain cardiac out put and control of blood pressure which reducing effort on heart muscle

Sheril Bautista
by Sheril Bautista , Cardiac Catheterization Labratory Staff Nurse , Kingdom hospital

Beta blocker medication Are the particularly used to manage the carciac arrythmias, this medication act to slow the heart rate, and decrease the oxygen demand. Beta blockers are competitive antagonists that block the receptor sites for the endogenous catecholamines epinephrine (adrenaline) and norepinephrine (noradrenaline) on adrenergic beta receptors, of the sympathetic nervous system, which mediates the fight-or-flight response. Some block activation of all types of β-adrenergic receptors and others are selective for one of the three known types of beta receptors, designated B1, B2 and B3 receptors. B1-adrenergic receptors are located mainly in the heart and in the kidneys. B2-adrenergic receptors are located mainly in the lungs, gastrointestinal tract, liver, uterus, vascular smooth muscle, and skeletal muscle. B3-adrenergic receptors are located in fat cells.

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