Chapter 1
Who is the Father of Modern Pharmacology?
John Jacob Abel
What regulatory agencies role is to ensure drugs are safe and effective?
What is the FDA
The bodies hyper-response to a foreign body
What is allergy
What transport system uses no energy?
What is Passive Diffusion
What is mean effective dose?
Produces therapeutic response in 50% of a group
What focuses on disease prevention as well as treatment and pain?
therapeutics
What is adaptation of the nervous system to drug use?
Physical Dependence
Symptoms of this include sudden drop in blood pressure, increased heart rate, and acute dyspnea after med administration.
What is anaphylactic reaction.
What transport method uses energy?
Active transport
What is median lethal dose?
lethal dose in 50% of a group
According to the RN Scope of practice what is one role of the nurse for medication administeration?
What is
Education
Monitoring
Managing
What is the intense compelling desire to use a substance?
What is Psychological Dependence
Name one reference that can be used for safe medication administration.
What is
Physician Desk Reference
Pharmacist
Published Journals
What organ is responsible for first pass effect and what medication routes are subject to first pass effect?
What are the liver and oral medications
When a drug binds to a receptor and enhances an effect?
What is Agonist
Drug classified by the mechanism of action of a drug?
What is Pharmacological Classification?
What teratogen risk category must women be advised not to become pregnant.
What is Category X
In what time limit must an ASAP medication be administered.
What is within 30 minutes
What is the normal serum albumin level?
What is 3.4 to 5.4
What baseline assessment can be used to determine a drugs effectiveness
Vital signs
What subjects are considered the foundations of pharmacology?
What is
Anatomy and Physiology
Chemistry
Microbiology
Pathophysiology
What scheduled category is Marijuana?
Category 1
What are the three type of administration routes and what is one example of each type.
What is
Topical
Enteral
Parenteral
What must patients avoid when taking a medication metabolized by Cytochrome P450
What is Grapefruit Juice
What organ is responsible for excretion of a medication
Kidney