Pharmacology Terms
is the process by which a medication works on the body.
What is Pharmacodynamics?
the most commonly administered medication in the prehospital setting.
What is oxygen?
includes scene safety, MOI/NOI, number of patients, request additional help, considers stabilization of c-spine.
What is Scene Size-Up?
used to re-establish circulation and artificial ventilation in a patient that is not breathing and has no pulse.
What is CPR?
month, menstration
What is men/o?
Any unwanted clinical results of a medication.
This medication can be administered by family members or caregivers for help reverse the dangerous adverse effects of an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone (Narcan)?
What is provocation or provokes?
position in which a patient is placed if breathing adequately on his/her own and no signs of injury to spine, hip, or pelvis.
What is recovery position?
life, also two
What is bi-?
Medications that enter the body by a route other than the digestive tract, skin, or mucous membranes.
What is parenteral medications (route)?
is the main hormone that controls the body's fight or flight response. Is the primary medication that you will be administering intramuscularly.
What is epinephrine?
paying attention to the conditions and people around you at all times.
What is situational awareness?
a discoloration of the skin caused by pooling of blood.
What is dependent lividity?
across, through, beyond
What is trans-?
The study of properties and effects of medications.
What is pharmacology?
An anti-inflammatory, anti-fever, and prevents platelets from clumping, thereby decreasing formation of new clots.
What is aspirin?
protective measures recommended by the CDC for use in dealing with objects, blood, body fluids, and other potential infectious material.
What is standard precautions?
decreased oxygens supply to the heart or tissues.
What is ischemia?
cavity, channel, or hollow space
What is sinus?
A liquid mixture that cannot be separated by filtering or allowing the mixture to stand.
What is a solution?
Dilates blood vessels
What is nitroglycerin?
Any deviation from alert and oriented to person, place, time, and event, or from a patient's normal baseline.
What is altered mental status?
The two cardiac rhythms that an automated external defibrillator will shock.
What is ventricular tachycardia & ventricular fibrillation?
difficult, painful, abnormal
What is dys-?