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Pharm assess&monitor
Pharmacotherapeutics: assessment and monitoring
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| desired outcome established with healthcare team, pt and pt's family | collaboration |
| Pharmacotherapy: Acute | Use: treatment of a patient with an acute, life threatening illness. |
| Pharmacotherapy: Maintenance | Use: taken daily to control a chronic problem, such as hypertension or type 2 diabetes |
| Pharmacotherapy: supplemental | Use: supplements the body's endogenous or dietary supply of an essential substance, such as insulin or iron. |
| Pharmacotherapy: palliative | Use: makes the patient more comfortable |
| Pharmacotherapy: supportive | Use: replaces substances (such as blood cells, fluids and electrolytes) lost by the body as a result of injury, surgery, or disease |
| Pharmacotherapy: prophylactic | Use: intended to prevent a specific problem. Use is based on published scientific evidence. |
| Pharmacotherapy: empiric | Use: given based on pt's symptoms - until a culture and drug sensitivity test results are available |