A patient tells a nurse, "My chest pain starts when I am resting, and when I had a cardiac catheterization, the doctor said I was having vasospasms." Which type of medication should the nurse anticipate to be prescribed to treat the patient's angina?

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1. NTG is used with stable angina, not Prinzmetal's angina.
2. Calcium channel blocking agents would be the drug of choice to stop the spasms of the coronary arteries that are causing the hypoxic pain in the myocardium from Prinzmetal's angina.
3. Lidocaine IV push will treat cardiac dysrhythmias but not hypoxic pain or coronary vasospasm.
4. Beta adrenergic blocking agents are used to treat stable angina.

A Patient Tells a Nurse, "My Chest Pain Starts When