Med Admin
Process that removes the less active drug or its metabolites.
What is Excretion?
Responsible for monitoring compliance of controlled Substances
What is the DEA?
Pain that arises from the organs of the body.
What is Visceral Pain?
Provides holistic pain management by including nonpharmacological interventions and nonopioid or opioid interventions to optimize pt outcome
What is Multimodal Pain Management?
When the drug effect is decreased by taking the drugs with another substance.
What is Antagonism?
Mixing medication in a solution that causes precipitation or combining a drug with another drug that causes an adverse chemical reaction.
What is Drug Incapatibility?
High potential for abuse, not accepted as medical treatment.
What is Schedule I controlled substances?
Pain that results from injury to skin, muscles, bone & joints.
What is Somatic Pain?
The administration of pain medication before a painful event.
What is Pre-Emptive Analgesia?
Work synergistically with standard pain meds to enhance pain relief and treat side effects of the medication
What is Adjuvant Medications?
Intended Effect, desired result
What is Therapeutic Effect?
Designed to be absorbed through the skin or systemic effect.
What are Transdermal Medications?
Occurs when the brain continues to receive messages from areas of amputation.
What is Phantom Pain?
Used for treatment of opioid OD.
What is Antagonist Analgesics?
Lowest intensity at which the brain recognizes the stimulus as pain.
What is Pain Threshold?
When combined effect is greater than the effect of either substance if taken alone.
What is Synergistic Effect?
When you apply lotion to an insect bite, what type of response.
What is a Local Biochemical Response?
Pain from non-injury stimuli.
What is Allodynia?
Morphine, fentanyl and oxy are examples of this. They are most effective for severe pain.
What are Agonist Analgesics?
Once pain is recognized, the brain changes the perception of it by sending input to the spinal cord to impede the transmission.
What is Modulation?
Ability to pass through tissue and organ membranes, extent to which the drug binds to the proteins and accumulates in fatty tissue.
What is Distribution?
Result from medication overdose or buildup of med in the blood due to impaired metabolism an excretion.
What are Toxic Effects?
Excessive Sensitivity.
What is Hyperalgesia?
Injection of local anesthetic into or near the spinal nerves for temporary pain control.
What is a Nerve Block?
Measurements include minim, dram, ounce, pint, quart.
What is Apothecary?