30 minutes

See how drugs work for your patients with an MI during immediate and continuing treatment. Learn about the drugs' therapeutic effects, life-threatening adverse reactions, and interactions. See exactly how to tailor your nursing care before, during, and after drug therapy.

With this DVD, you'll learn:

• how nitroglycerin relieves chest pain by relaxing vascular smooth muscles, which dilates coronary arteries
• how thrombolytic drugs, such as alteplase, lyse an occluding thrombus, restore myocardial
• blood flow, and prevent necrosis of the injured myocardium
• how heparin blocks the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin and prothrombin to thrombin, thus preventing new thrombi from forming
• why beta blockers are used to limit the size of an MI
• how ACE inhibitors minimize left ventricular dilation by reducing afterload and blood pressure
• why HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, such as lovastatin, are used to reduce the risk of a second
• MI in patients with hyperlipidemia......and much, much more.