Medication Fundamentals
A substance used to treat or prevent disease or relieve pain
What is a medication?
Under the tongue
What is Sublingual (SL)?
Oral glucose dose
What is one half to one whole tube?
Indication for oxygen
What is a pulse oximetry less than 94%/ hypoxia?
Trade name vs. generic name
What is the manufacturer's name vs the simple, nonproprietary name?
The therapeutic effect that a medication is expected to have on the body
What is its action?
By mouth
What is per os (PO)?
Pediatric epinephrine dosage
What is 0.15mg?
Contraindication for oral glucose
What is unconscious/cannot swallow?
Narcan's mechanism of action
What is an opioid antagonist?
Binds to receptors and blocks other medications or chemicals from acting on the receptor
What is an antagonist?
Into the bone
What is intraosseous (IO)?
Oxygen dosage
What is until SPO2 improves?
Indication for aspirin administration
What is chest pain of cardiac origin?
What is a MAD (mucosal atomizer device)?
Effects that are undesirable but pose little risk
What are unintended effects?
Rate of intravenous injection absorption
What is immediate?
Narcan dose
What is 0.4mg-2mg, titrate to effect?
Indication for Albuterol/Atrovent
What is asthma/difficulty breathing with wheezing and has a prescription?
Aspirin's mechanism of action
What is an anti-platelet aggregator?
Situations in which the benefits of administering a medication may outweigh the risks
What is a relative contraindication?
Medications that enter the body through the digestive system
What are enteral medications?
Nitroglycerin dose
What is 0.4mg up to three times, five minutes apart?
Contraindications for nitroglycerin (hint: there are three)
What are use of an ED pill within 24 hrs, possible head injury, and systolic BP less than 100 mmHg?
Classification of epinephrine
What is an adrenergic catecholamine/ sympathomimetic?