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These are the rights intended to reduce the risk of medication errors.
What is the right drug, right dose, right route, right patient, right time/frequency, and right documentation.
_______ is the study of how chemical agents, both natural and synthetic, affect biochemical function.
What is pharmacology?
What is another word for metabolism?
What is biotransformation?
The neurotransmitter for cholinergic receptors.
What is acetylcholine?
A common anti-anxiety medication that should never be given orally to cats.
What is Diazepam?
Which of the following does not need to be on a dispensing label?
a) Drug name
b) DVM name
c) Route of administration
d) DVM license number
What is the DVM license number?
What is it called when a drug causes physiologic changes in the body?
What is pharmacodynamics?
What are the four phases of pharmacokinetics?
What is absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion?
What are the adverse effects of the parasympathomimetic cholinergic drugs such as pilocarpine?
What is SLUDGE, cramps and spasms, weakness, increased GI motility, and bronchospasm?
A group of medications given with the goal of reducing anxiety, OCD tendencies, and improved behaviors.
What are anti-depressants?
What method of administration is avoided in veterinary medicine?
What is intra-arterial (IA)?
Which instance occurs when a patient is harmed because of a direct effect of a medication?
What is an adverse drug reaction?
The higher the affinity of the drug, the lower the ______.
What is efficacy?
Which type of adrenergic drug contracts vascular smooth muscle and inhibits lipolysis?
What is an alpha-2 adrenergic drug?
A drug that is best for treating inappropriate urine marking in cats.
What is Buspirone?
The family pet, a pot-bellied pig named Wilbur, goes to the clinic to get an examination. The DVM is unsure on what specific medication is needed to treat Wilbur's skin-condition. What source should the DVM refer to?
What is FARAD (Food Animal Residue Avoidance Databank)?
Giving Revolution to a pet ferret. What do you call this instance?
What is an extra-label drug?
What is one of the factors that affect a drug's steady state?
What is organ function, drug absorption and metabolic rate, and the drug's half-life?
What are examples of adrenergic drugs that reverse alpha-1 agonists?
What are atipamezole and yohimbine?
Name three adverse effects of antidepressant drugs such as fluoxetine.
What is GI upset, irritability, anxiety, hyperactivity, lethargy, and panting?
What do drug companies do first to start drug development?
What is the identification of pharmacological substance?
What is potency?
What is the amount of drug needed to get desired response?
What is the term for the space of drug concentration values between the LD50 and ED50?
What is the margin of safety?
Besides diazepam and midazolam, what other types of drugs can one use to control seizures in patients?
What are barbiturates (phenobarbital)?
What class of drug is selegiline, the drug used to treat "doggy dementia"?
What is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI)?