The Nurse’s Guide to Common Diuretics: Episode 41
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🗓️ 2 May 2018
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
* Loop diuretics
* Potassium-sparing diuretics
* Thiazide diuretics
* Specialty diuretics
In this brief overview, you'll learn the most common diuretics used in each of these classes, how they work, what you need to watch for and how you'll educate the patient.
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Holland, L. N. (2003). Core concepts in pharmacology. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. It is Norsmo and welcome back to the Straight A Nursing |
| 0:16.4 | Podcast and today we will be talking about the oh so exciting world of |
| 0:22.2 | diuretics. |
| 0:24.0 | Yay! |
| 0:25.0 | Diaretics are something that you will see all the time in the clinical setting. |
| 0:30.0 | So it's helpful to have an idea of the different types and how they work and what you're going to watch for. |
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| 1:18.0 | page straight a nursing student you will find it okay so let's get to talking about some diuretics. So basically |
| 1:26.9 | diuretics are used to help regulate fluid balance in the body and you will see this in all kinds of situations |
| 1:36.9 | like hypertension, pulmonary edema, congestive heart failure, liver failure, renal failure, so you're going to be |
| 1:46.6 | using them for patients for a lot of reasons with a lot of different pathophysophysologies. |
| 1:53.2 | There's essentially three main types |
| 1:55.7 | with an extra fourth kind of specialty grouping. |
| 2:00.2 | We'll start by talking about the three main types and those are the loop diuretics, the |
| 2:06.7 | potassium sparing diuretics, and the thioside diuretics. |
| 2:14.0 | So basically, diuretics work. |
| 2:17.8 | If you think about the physiology of the kidney |
| 2:21.5 | and all the tubules and all of that, you remember that. the are going to work by blocking the resorption of sodium in the nephrons of the kidney. |
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