Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics
and Pharmacotherapies
and Pharmacotherapies
ADME stands for ....
What is Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism and Excretion
Pills or Tablets
What is the oral route?
A class of drugs that share similar uses.
What is therapeutic classes?
The combined response of two drugs is less powerful than the response of either drug alone.
What is antagonist effect?
Data collection, historical, physical, laboratory and diagnostic information is part of what section of the nursing process.
What is Assessment?
Decreased response to a drug over time.
What is drug tolerance?
Administered into veins
What is intravenous?
Brand name or proprietary name; selected by drug company; protected by copyright Will have a ®.
What is a trade name?
Two drugs with similar effects are administered.
What is additive effects?
Acetaminophen is what type of name.
What is a generic name?
The time it takes half the drug to be eliminated; a drug is eliminated out of the body after 4 -5.
What is a half life?
Applied directly to a part of the body
What is topical?
Drugs that share similar characteristics.
What is a pharmacologic class?
A rare response to a drug.
What is an Idiosyncratic response?
A type of therapy used to treat chronic conditions
What is maintenance therapy?
The margin of safety between a drug's therapeutic effects and its adverse effects.
What is the Therapeutic Index?
Administered under the tongue
What is sublingual?
Hormones, Oils and fats, Enzymes, Vaccines
What is an animal's natural drug source?
A disorder caused by the medication.
What is Iatrogenic?
A drug's ability to initiate a response after binding to a receptor.
What is Intrinsic Activity?
Binds to receptor sites and blocks the effects of the agonist.
What is a non-competitive antagonist?
Special infusion directly into the marrow of the bone.
What is intraosseous infusion?
Phase of drug development, Trials with people who have the disease that the drug is being created for.
What is Phase II?
A synergistic effect - two drugs that produce the same effect are given together and one drug enhances the effect of the other drug.
What is Potentiation?
When drug particles bypass systemic circulation and go directly into the hepatic portal circulation.
What is the first-pass effect?