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Pharmacology Exam 1
Question | Answer |
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Pharmaceutic | drugs is dissolved; drugs must be soluble liquid to be absorbed within the body |
Pharmacokinetic | The process of drug movement throughout the body that is necessary to achieve drug action |
Pharmacodynamics | deals with drug action and effect on body |
Preclinical Trails | chemical tested on laboratory animals |
Phase I | chemical tested on humans volunteers |
Phase II | drug tried on informed patients with the disease |
Phase III | drug used in vast clinical market |
Phase IV | continual evaluation of the drug |
Half-life | the time it takes for the amount of drug in the body to be reduced by half |
Loading dose | some drugs are given in loading doses because the half life of the drug is long |
Onset (1) | time it takes for a drug to reach minimum effective concentration after administration |
Peak (2) | when it reaches its highest concentration in the blood |
Peak drug level (3) | highest plasma concentration of a drug at a specific time, indicates rate drug absorption |
Through level (4) | the lowest plasma concentration of a drug and it measures rate drug is eliminated |
The 5 rights of drug administration | Right patient, right drug, right does, right route, and right time |
Brand name | name given to a drug by the pharmaceutical company that developed it; it also called a trade name or proprietary name |
chemical name | name that reflects the chemical structure of a drug |
generic name | original designation that a drug is given when the drug company that developed it applies for the approval process |
pharmacology | the study of the biological effects of chemicals |
Nursing Process | assessment, evaluation, implementation, nursing diagnosis, and planning |