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Drug name that begins with a lower case letter.
Generic
Safest, least expensive, and most convenient route for administering drugs.
Oral
Dose of drug that kills 50% of experimental animals.
LD 50
Drug used to best treat xerostomia
Pilocarpine
Method of preventing an emergency in the dental office.
Taking a complete medical history
The abbreviation used in prescriptions that means immediately.
STAT
Most common site for biotransformation.
Liver
The greatest risk to the fetus from exposure to drugs occurs
Before pregnancy status is known
When SANS is stimulated, the adrenal medulla releases ________ into the systemic circulation.
Epinephrine
Most common emergency in the dental office.
Syncope
Agency that determines whether a drug is considered a controlled substance and to which schedule it belongs.
DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)
A biologically active substance that can modify cellular function.
Drug
Drug effect that is neither predictable nor dose related
drug allergy
Ipratropium is a(n) _________ found in an inhaler used to treat asthma.
anticholinergic
Drug of choice for opioid overdose.
naloxone (Narcan)
True or False: heroin is a Schedule II controlled substance.
False
Route used to administer the tuberculosis skin test.
Intradermal
Genetically related abnormal drug response
idiosyncratic reaction
Category of autonomic drug used to treat ADD.
Adrenergic
Minutes it takes for a cardiac arrest to cause permanent brain damage.
2
Schedule ____ drugs cannot be refilled. A new prescription must be obtained to receive more medication.
II
The four major steps of Pharmacokinetics.
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion
Acute, life threatening allergic reaction characterized by hypotension, bronchospasm, laryngeal edema, and cardiac arrhythmias.
Type I hypersensitivity
Acronym SLUD denotes adverse reactions associated with the administration of Cholinergic agents. What does SLUD stand for?
Salivation, Lacrimation, Urination, Defecation
Excessive dose of insulin in a patient with diabetes.