Definitions
The ability of a drug to produce a desired effect and it's tendency to produce an undesirable effect. Also known as the safety margin
Therapeutic index
They regulate food additives and drugs
FDA - Food and Drug administration
This is the most common way owners get medication into their pets. (Name and give medical abbreviation)
By mouth PO
This can reduce the amount of drug that enters systemic circulation when enteric medication is given
First pass effect
This is the complex sequence of events that occurs after getting the drug into the patient, how it moves through the body
Pharmacokinetics
They regulate vaccines, serums and antitoxins.
The USDA- United States Dept of Agriculture
Intravenous IV
This is the term that describes when the body chemically alters a drug, often by the liver
Metabolism
Relating to the mechanisms by which drugs produce change in biologic functions of the body, or how the drug affects the body
Pharmacodynamics
They regulate topical pesticides, in veterinary medicine this includes flea and tick topicals.
EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
This parenteral route would be the slowest option for absorption of a drug. (also give abbreviation)
Subcutaneous SQ or SC (SQ more common)
This is the term that refers to how much of the drug makes it into systemic circulation
Bioavailability
This is how the drug enters the body
Route of administration
They regulate vitamins and supplements
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This parenteral route would allow 100% bioavailability, but would not be the fastest, nor slowest, but could be the most painful, especially if giving a large volume (also give abbreviation)
Intramuscular IM
This is the process by which a drug, once absorbed, is carried to the site of action
Distribution
The application of drugs in preventing, diagnosing and treating disease.
The FDA center that is responsible for animal and veterinary products being imported into the USA
Center of Veterinary Medicine
The rate of absorption of an oral drug is dependent on
GI function
Surface area
Lipid solubility of drug
Blood supply to absorption site
The process of drugs or their metabolites are removed from the body by exiting via urine, stool or bile
Elimination