Levothyroxine Side Effects and Mechanism of Action | Nursing Pharmacology

Levothyroxine Side Effects and Mechanism of Action | Nursing Pharmacology

In this video, you'll learn the side effects of levothyroxine and levothyroxine's mechanism of action. This is a super simple way to learn pharmacology faster and easier in nursing school.
 
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Generic Name: Levothyroxine
 
Trade Names: Synthroid, Unithroid, Levoxyl, Eurhryox, Tirosint
 
Pharmacologic Class: Thyroid product

Therapeutic Class: Hormone
 
Indications of Levothyroxine: Levothyroxine is a thyroid supplement used to treat hypothyroidism. It can also treat certain types of thyroid cancer or goiters.
 
Mechanism of action of Levothyroxine: Levothyroxine is a synthetic form of T4. In hypothyroidism the body has low levels of T4, so this man made synthetic form of T4 will restore it to normal levels which restores function all over the body including metabolism, gluconeogenesis, protein synthesis, cell growth and development of the brain and central nervous system.
 
Therapeutic effect of Levothyroxine: Levothyroxine restores normal hormone balance by replacing the depleted thyroid hormone T4.

Now that you have an overview of what it is and what it does, let's dive into the side effects of levothyroxine in this video!

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
0:46 Trade Names, Generic Names, Classes, and Indications
1:22 Mechanism of Action and Therapeutic Effect
2:06 Side Effects
2:45 Nursing Assessment
3:09 Contraindications
3:29 Patient Education and Nursing Considerations
4:26 MEDICATION DATABASE


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