Atenolol

Atenolol is is a drug called beta-blockers. Beta-blockers affect the heart and circulatory (blood flow through arteries and veins).

Indications:

To deal with chest pain (angina) and hypertension (high blood pressure). The drug is also used to treat or prevent heart attacks.

Dosage:

5-10 mg IV with an average of 1 mg / min

The dose may be repeated as many as 5 mg IV 10 minutes later.

Give oral dose 10-15 minutes after IV administration last given.

50 mg given in 1 or 2 doses, within 12 hours apart.

Further doses: 50 mg by mouth (orally) was given 2 times daily or 100 mg by mouth (orally) a day 1 time.

Side Effects:

CNS effects (fatigue, depression, dizziness, confusion, sleep disturbances); Effects of CV (heart failure, hypothermia, impotence); Securities row (bronchospasma in patients who are susceptible and drug content of beta1 should be used cautiously in these patients ); Securities GI (N / V, diarrhea, constipation); metabolic effects (can produce hyper-or hypoglycemia, changes in serum cholesterol and triglycerides.

Special Instructions:

Observe HR, BP, and ECG during IV administration.

After the first IV administration, the patient is without possible side effects limited oral changed his gift with a pause target HR between 50-60 bpm.

Berkontra-indications with bradycardia, SBP <100mmHg, blockage in the lungs, signs of peripheral hipoperfusion.

Use with caution in patients with bronchopasma, asthma or other respiratory illnesses. Use with caution in patients with depression, patients with peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and patients taking insulin.

Beta-blockers may cover up the symptoms of hyperthyroidism and hypoglycemia, and may aggravate psoriosis.

Patients in long-term treatment should not stop the use of all of a sudden, had to stop gradually over 1-2 weeks.