Drug Basics
This is a chemical that changes how the body works.
What is a drug?
Pharmacokinetics can be remembered as this: what the ___ does to the drug.
What is the body?
This route gets a drug into the bloodstream faster than the other routes.
What is IV?
Pharmacodynamics means this.
Pharmacodynamics means this.
This type of reaction is an expected drug effect.
What is a pharmacologic reaction?
This is the study or science of drugs.
What is pharmacology?
The four steps of pharmacokinetics are abbreviated as this.
What is ADME?
This is the amount of a drug that reaches the bloodstream.
What is bioavailability?
This means a drug becomes less effective after repeated use.
What is tolerance?
This type of reaction involves the immune system.
What is an allergic reaction?
This drug name describes the drug's chemical structure.
What is the chemical name?
This is the process of a drug entering the bloodstream.
What is absorption?
This occurs when the liver breaks down some of an oral drug before it reaches the bloodstream.
What is the first-pass effect?
This type of dependence means the body needs the drug.
What is physical dependence?
This type of reaction is unusual and unexpected.
What is an idiosyncratic reaction?
This is the standard, non-brand name of a drug.
What is the generic name?
This organ is the major site of drug metabolism.
What is the liver?
This blood protein carries many drugs throughout the body.
What is albumin?
This interaction occurs when 1 + 1 = 2.
What is an additive interaction?
This term describes a drug that can harm fetal development.
What is teratogenic?
This is the first or main drug used to represent a drug class.
What is a prototype drug?
his is the process by which the body gets rid of a drug, and these organs are the main organs responsible.
What is excretion through the kidneys?
When this drug level is too high, toxicity can occur.
What is the peak?
This interaction occurs when 1 + 1 is greater than 2.
What is a synergistic interaction?
In poisoning, the nurse first remembers these three priorities.
What is airway, breathing, and circulation (ABCs)?