i. Sedatives: Anxiolytic drugs
Anxiety- breakdown
Reduce anxiety
Then patients are anxious, maybe restless: they are stressed, confined to bed, heavily instrumented: endo-tracheal tubes, foley catheters, IVs etc.
ii. sedative drugs: (common) Benzodiazepines
Lorazepam (Ativan ): brand name
Midazolam ( versed)
Propofol (diprivan)
iii. Mechanism Brain has 100 billion neurons, that operate under
the influence of multiple neurotransmitters relative to anxiety
& operate:
a) Glutamate secreted by pre-synaptic terminals in sensory CNS
pathways (central and mid-brain) is excitatory. it raises
anxiety
b) Gamma- amino butyric acid (GABA) reduces neuron activity and opposes the effect of glutamate.
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