Adult and Pediatric Dosage Calculations
Medical Errors
Substance Abuse
Vaccines and Immunoglobulins
Analgesic, Antipyretic, and Inflammatory Drugs
100
Total amount ordered and its frequency of administration.
What is dosage ordered?
100
Inappropriate or incorrect administration of a drug that should be preventable through effective system control.
What is medication error?
100
Progressive and chronic abise of a substance that causes a person to use it repeatedly despite consequences.
What is addiction?
100
The state or condition of being resistant to invading mircoorganisms.
What is immunity?
100
Reduces elevated body temperature to normal levels.
What is antipyretic?
200
Amount of drug in a dosage unit.
What is dose on hand?
200
Receiving multiple medications, sometimes for the same condition.
What is polypharmacy?
200
5.8% of Americans, or 14.4 million people abuse this drug.
What is marijuana?
200
Consists of entire microorganisms tha may be either inactivated (killed) or attenuated (live).
What is vaccine?
200
Medications used to reduce symptoms caused by arthritis.
What is nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drugs?
300
D/ H x Q = x
What is formula to calculate dosage?
300
Coordinates the reporting of medication errors via MedWatch program.
What is the FDA?
300
Includes barbituates, opiods, and alcohol.
What is central nervous system depressants?
300
A form of acquired immunity that develops in response to an antigen either naturally or artificially.
What is active immunity?
300
Drugs derived from opium poppies and include morphine and codeine.
What is opiates or opioid?
400
Rapid acting, short acting, intermediate acting, and long acting.
What is types of insulin?
400
Can occur during prescribing or ordering if practitioners are distracted or interrupted.
What is first stage medication error?
400
Alter consciousness that may appear "dreamlike".
What is hallucinogen?
400
A form of acquired immunity that occurs naturally in the active transport across the placental barrier.
What is passive immunity?
400
Two types of analgesics.
What is nonopioid and opioid?
500
Most accurate method of determing dosage for pediatric.
What is the body surface area (BSA) method?
500
Nine various categories of medication error.
What is Category A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I?
500
Occurs naturally in the seeds, fruits, or leaves of more than 63 different plants.
What is caffeine?
500
Most common adverse effects associated with vaccinations.
What is fever, headache, malaise, nausea, and dizziness?
500
Can be combined with other drugs, such as aspirin-like analgesics, anithistamines and expectorants.
What is hydrocodone?
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