Match the appropriate classification to the corresponding drug actions or description.

Question

a.  Anticoagulant
b.  Antihypertensive
c.  Cardiac glycoside
d.  Antilipemic agent
e.  Platelet inhibitor
f.  Antiarrhythmic
g.  Thombolytic agent
h.  Vasodilators
i.  Hematopoietic agents

1. Single drug in this class, digoxin, primarily for heart failure; increases force of
contractions
2. Agents that act in a variety of ways to suppress or correct abnormal heart rhythms
3. Agents that act in a variety of ways to control high blood pressure, they do not cure it.
4. Agents that dilate blood vessels, some act more peripheral and others directly on
cardiac vessels
5. Agents used to lower blood cholesterol levels
6. Agents that interfere with blood clotting, includes coumarins and heparins.
7. Agents that dissolve and liquefy existing clots, used in appropriate acute MI and stroke
8. Agents interfere with activation pathways of platelet clumping, aspirin is one of these.
9. Agents used to stimulate formation of specific blood cell lines.

Answer 1

1. c.  Cardiac glycoside
2. f.  Antiarrhythmic
3. b.  Antihypertensive
4. h.  Vasodilators
5. d.  Antilipemic agent
6. a.  Anticoagulant
7. g.  Thombolytic agent
8. e.  Platelet inhibitor
9. i.  Hematopoietic agents