Educational and Legal Requirements
The degree obtained by pharmacists after completing their undergraduate studies.
What is PharmD?
Any substance that influences the physical or mental functions of the body.
What is a drug?
The actual mixing of ingredients to form powders, tablets, capsules, ointments, and solutions
What is compounding?
A federal agency of the HHS which is responsible for safeguarding the public's health by ensuring the safety of pharmaceuticals for humans and animals.
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
Lidocaine is sometimes considered to have two major classifications. In regard to EMS, lidocaine primarily serves as a:
What is an antiarrhythmic?
The standardized examination administered to prospective undergraduate students aiming to be pharmacists.
What is the Pharmacy College Admissions Test (PCAT)?
The amount of a drug that produces a therapeutic effect in 50% of patients who receive it.
What is ED50?
A subspecialist who primarily centers on delivering effective drug therapy to patients.
What is a pharmacotherapist?
The global entity responsible for promoting health by monitoring global drug safety.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
In emergencies, this drug is used to treat bradycardia and raise a patient's heart rate.
What is atropine?
The organization administers the examinations necessary to obtain licensure in all states.
What is the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP)?
A term referring to how quickly and how much of a drug reaches the blood supply following, absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion.
What is bioavailability?
A computerized record of a customer's drug therapy (often included in their EHR).
What is a medication profile?
This person's ground-breaking pharmaceutical discovery in 1928 led to an "antibiotic revolution."
Who is Alexander Fleming?
Medication often given to diabetics who experience hypoglycemia due to an inadvertent excess intake of insulin.
What is dextrose?
The organization that accredits formal education programs for pharmacy technicians.
What is the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists?
Name one factor (of a drug) that the FDA takes into consideration when developing pharmacologic classifications.
What is (1.) mechanism of action, (2.) physiologic effect, and (3.) chemical structure?
The percentage of pharmacists who work in hospitals (plus or minus 3%).
What is 26%?
The duration of time in the United States when a company or individual experiences "patent protection."
What is 20 years?
The drug that a patient experiencing metabolic acidosis would most likely be administered.
What is sodium bicarbonate?
The only state that does not allow a pharmacist with an out-of-state license to operate.
What is California?
The range of doses between the minimum amount of the drug that produces the desired effect and a medically unacceptable adverse effect.
What is the therapeutic window?
The average salary of a pharmacy technician (acceptable answers within 5k).
What is $35,100?
The human teratogen responsible for causing serious, life-threatening birth defects --- linked to a great "tragedy" in the 1960s.
What is thalidomide?
The bioavailability of medications given intravenously.
What is 100%?