effects of loop diuretics on body systems

[dragonlady77]

Hi,

I'm new and desperately in need of help for an assignment I'm doing. I need to write the effects of Frusemide on all the different body systems.I have searched just about everywhere and it only seems to be adverse reactions are listed???Any suggestions tonight please!!!

thanks heaps in advance

[XB9S, BSN, MSN, EdD, RN, APN]

Welcome to allnurses.com

I have moved your post to the student assistance forum

It may help if you could let us know where you have looked already for the information, this way we can point you in the right direction and help build your study resources for future assignments.

[dragonlady77]

Hi and thank you for replying. I am a post grad student with 36 years nursing and yes I do have a science degree. I have searched about 30 textbooks at our uni library, CKN, uptodate.com and all the usual spots that one would search given my experience.I also asked our nurse educator for assistance and after telling me that its not his job to write my assignment???(I asked exactly what I've asked here) he sent me an email telling me to google it!!!!

I am sitting here surrounded by piles of books thinking I obviously have just missed a queue here somewhere?

My assignment is as follows. I chose a patient and gave brief(250 words) history, chose one drug that had a primary effect on his condition(frusemide for overload) and wrote 450 words on its mechanism of action.Now have to write 660 words on effects on the different body systems then another 660 words on effects I witnessed post administration and comparison of both findings!!

Is that any clearer?

thanks again

[Daytonite, BSN, RN]

about the only other suggestion i can give is to try pharmacy school sites and pharmacy textbooks--the ones for pharmacy students, not nurses. they really get deeper into the physiology and mechanism of action of drugs. i have two websites that might help or perhaps set you off in the right direction, but not sure:

• http://www.pharmacology2000.com/learning2.htm - look at the subject headings and explore some of them. there are also links within the text of some of the various pages
  
• http://www.kumc.edu/research/medicine/pharmacology/cai/menu1.htm

[Jilaweez, BSN, MSN, RN]

What about a pathophysiology text? You know the mechanism of action Furosemide has on the body....how do those effects work within each body system?

[Music in My Heart]

Hi,

I'm new and desperately in need of help for an assignment I'm doing. I need to write the effects of Frusemide on all the different body systems.I have searched just about everywhere and it only seems to be adverse reactions are listed???Any suggestions tonight please!!!

thanks heaps in advance

I don't know if this is significant but your limitations on the google search might be due to the alternative name that you're using. I find a whole lot more information pops out of my Google when I use "furosemide" instead of "frusemide"

One obvious thing to correlate to body systems is the loss of potassium that occurs with the loop diuretics and the systemic responses to its dropping levels.

[Music in My Heart]

I tried typing in "systemic effects furosemide" and received a number of useful links.

I think you need to try some alternate Google search strategies.