If you have high blood pressure, that means that your blood pumps faster through the heart at a quicker pace than what is considered to be normal. If this is the case, then you should go to your doctor in order for him to prescribe you beta blockers or beta-adrenergic blockers. This medicine decreases your blood pressure back to a normal or less than what it was.
This, in turn, means that it will reduce the number of heart beats per minute. It will also reduce the force or pressure it takes the heart to pump blood. If a person who was on beta blockers all of a sudden decides to stop taking his medication, the nurse may know this by his irregular pulse.
Irregular pulse-rationale: abrupt withdrawal of a beta-adrenergic blocker results in rebound cardiac excitation, which causes ventricular arrhythmias and an irregular pulse. abnormally low blood pressure would be unlikely because beta-adrenergic blockers are used to treat hypertension. abrupt withdrawal of this medication wouldnt directly affect a clients respiratory rate.client needs category: physiological integrityclient needs subcategory: reduction of risk potentialcognitive level: analysisreference: karch, a.m. focus on nursing pharmacology, 4th ed. philadelphia: lippincott williams & wilkins, 2008, p. 467.
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