Combination antihypertensive meds

[fostersgirl69]

Which clients benefit from a combination of antihypertension medications?

[PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN]

Well first thing to come to mind would be a person with hypertension.

[akulahawkRN, ADN, RN, EMT-P]

I presume that we're discussing a single pill that is a combination of different antihypertensives?

[PsychNurseWannaBe, BSN, RN]

OH... is she talking like lisinopril/HCTZ??

[fostersgirl69]

Yes, we are learning about antihypertensives......ALL of them. And one of the questions on my study guide says. Which clients benefit from a combination of antihypertension medications? I really don't understand the question to begin with. Do they mean like the older generation that can take one pill that contains an antihypertensive and a diuretic, instead of having to take two pills. Heck, I don't know what she is asking. Though someone ought there might understand what the question is asking. Thanks guys!!

[caliotter3]

I would say an oldster who would find it easier to take less pills, so combining two or more to make less pills to take would be better. For that matter, anybody would find it easier to take one combo pill instead of two separate pills.

[caliotter3]

But I think they may be asking something else. Look at the different classes of antihyper. drugs. There are two kinds of beta blockers aren't there? With different actions? So, the doctor would be trying to target one system in one way over another by prescribing one type of beta blocker over the other, or a combination of both, or a different combination of beta blocker and calcium channel blocker, etc. I didn't word this very well, but I think you can get the idea I am trying to convey.

[nurseprnRN, BSN, RN]

what they are asking, in a way that a newbie might not be able to intuit, is why would some people (what people?) benefit from (need) two or more blood pressure medications that have different methods of action, at the same time?