Hey, what's up guys? Well, welcome to the very first episode here. And so I created a website

it's called Physician assistant boards.com and I'm creating this to kind of supplement that website.

If you go check out the website, I have a med blog on there where I break down all of the

medical content from the Pants Blueprint into what I think is a very easy to understand format.

Okay.

So the goal here is to get you prepared for school, pass your

So what I want to do with these lectures I want to pick one topic and I want to kind of dissect it you know to

relevant information at least so that we have a better understanding and we'll be doing this periodically

just to kind of supplement what I already have on physician assistant boards.com

If you check it out I'll be adding content free free content on there daily if I can. So go ahead and

check that out and today we're going to be talking about hypertensive medications

and specifically we're going to talk about beta blockers,

calcium channel blockers, ace arbs, and the diuretics.

So let's start with the beta blockers.

First thing you need to know, there's two beta receptors.

There's a beta one and a beta two. The beta one receptors are found in cardiac muscle. This includes

the S. A and the AV node. And by stimulating these receptors, we stimulate the S. A and the A node and by stimulating these receptors we stimulate the

S A node which will increase the heart rate and ultimately increase cardiac

output. If we block these receptors then we have the opposite effect

so that means we're going to slow the heart down.

We're going to allow more time for the ventricle to fill and you're going to decrease that oxygen demand.

Another place beta receptors are found are in the kidney.

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