Clayton
3 differences between generic and brand name drugs
What are brand names have a registered trademark symbol, brand names are capitalized, generic drugs have the same active ingredient but different fillers
A category II drug
opiates, amphetamines
What role does vibration play in hearing?
Sympathetic
What is considered the master gland?
Pituitary
Variable
The main organ of excretion.
What is the kidney?
That action for when drugs are brought to receptor sites by circulating fluids.
What is distribution?
Name the 3 parts of a neuron
The 3 middle ear bones (ossicles)
Incus, malleus, stapes
Name the helper cells of the lymphatic system
The most active organ of metabolism
What is the liver?
What is the definition of a drug that interferes with the action of a primary drug. Give an example.
Antagonist, Narcan
What do sound waves trigger?
Vibration (tympanic membrane, oval window, the vibration causes fluid to move, which causes an impulse to generate in the organ of Corti)
What are the two major division of the autonomic nervous system and what are they responsible for?
Sympathetic: fight or flight
Parasympathetic: routine daily function
The two ways pediatric patients grow
Cephalocaudal and proximodistal
What causes a cumulative medication effect?
Decreased ability of the organs to metabolize and excrete drugs
The patient receives 100mg of a medication at 07:00. The half life is 6 hours. What time will it be when 50mg is left in his system?
13:00/1pm
What is the difference between natural and acquired immunity?
Natural occurs by exposure to the actual illness, acquired occurs through artificial methods such as receiving a vaccine or immunoglobulin
Name the two types of equilibrium and define what they are
Static: sense of gravity
Dynamic: sense of motion
Name Elizabeth Kubler-Ross' 5 stages of grief.
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance
The definition of LADME and 3 factors that affect it.
Age, gender, weight, organ dysfunction, genetics, basal metabolic rate (baseline metabolism), smoking, other medications
Define teratogen and name a medication that is considered one
Accutane
Describe the transformation of vision from through the eye from the pupil to the brain.
Light enters through the pupil, is bent by the lens and concentrates on the retina where rods and cones convert convert it to a nerve impulse. The impulse exits out the optic nerve and travels to the visual cortex where the brains interprets the signal and tells us what we are seeing.
If one parent is blue eyed and one parent has brown eyes but is a carrier of the blue eyed-gene, what is the chance of having a child with blue eyes?
50%
Name 5 ways to know death is imminent.
Death rattle, cool/clammy skin, profuse sweating, fixed and dilated pupils, Cheyne-stokes respirations, weak and rapid pulse, falling BP