Classifications
Opens blood vessels, affects the muscles in the walls of the arteries and veins.
Vasodilator
Administered IV/IM and is 40mg.
Furosemide
Your patient has 10/10 chest pain. There BP is 115/78. What are you treating their pain with.
Morphine 10mg IV/IO
Bioavailability
IV
Relaxes the muscles around the airways, widening them and making it easier to breathe.
Bronchodilator.
Adrenaline 1:1000
500mcg IM
You are treating an asthmatic patient with DIB and wheezing. You have administered Salbutamol and Ipratropium and have refractory symptoms. What is your next treatment.
Hydrocortisone 100 mg IV/IM, or prednisolone 40mg PO
Movement of a drug through the body, and what the body does to the drug.
Pharmacokinetics
Provides a legal framework that allows some registered health professionals to supply and/or administer specified medicines to a pre-defined group of patients, without them having to see a prescriber.
Patient Group Directive
Medications that lower blood pressure by blocking an enzyme that causes blood vessels to narrow, relaxes them and improves blood flow.
ACE Inhibitors
Administered orally, this medications dose is 10-20g
Glucose 40%
A patient was found with pinpoint pupils and respiratory depression. He is now in cardiac arrest. What medication would you administer in addition to your normal arrest drug(s)?
Naloxone 400mcg IV/IO/IM/IN
What the drug does to the body, actions/reactions.
Pharmacodynamics
Provides a system of licensing for manufacturing and dealing in medicines.
Medicines Act of 1968
Acts on bacteria. By mechanisms that include: killing the bacteria, or preventing their replication/growth.
Antibiotic
In adrenal crisis, you would administer 100mg IV/IM.
Hydrocortisone
Your 22-year-old patient suffered multiple limb injuries after being struck by a car going 20mph. His pain is managed, and he is otherwise stable. You are now transporting him to the nearest MTC. Which medication would you consider?
TXA 1g IV/IO/IM over 10 minutes
Interaction between a drug or other molecule and a protein, impacting the drug's distribution, efficacy, and clearance.
Plasma Protein Binding
When someone develops an acute desensitization to a drug.
Tachyphylaxis
Blocks or reverses the effects of opioids by binding to opioid receptors without activating them.
Opioid Antagonist.
Atropine
600mcg IV/IO
Your head trauma patient has suffered 3 seizures, witnessed by you, During the 3rd seizure which medication would you consider for this head injury patient?
Diazepam 10mg IV/IO/PR
The specific biochemical process through which a drug or substance produces its effect in the body, including the molecular targets it interacts with.
Mechanism of Action
The following:
When a med starts working
When a med stops working
How long the med has worked
Onset, termination, and duration of action.