The most common and easiest route of administration
What is Oral (PO=per os)
100
The fastest route with the most rapid effect.
What is intravenous. (IV)
100
The study of how drugs are used in the patient's diagnosis.
What is Pharmacotherapeutics.
100
The places drugs can originate from.
What are minerals, animal sources, synthetically, and plant sources.
100
This agency regulates the development and approval of biologics.
What is United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
200
The route the is not through the gastrointestinal tract.
What is parenteral.
200
This is the second fastest way to get drugs into the body.
What is intramuscular. (IM)
200
The study of the biological and physiologic effects of drugs and their mechanisms of action on the body.
What is Pharmacodynamics.
200
The use of a drug other than what is stated on the label.
What is extra-label drug use.
200
The "Six Rights".
What are the right drug, right dose, right patient, right time/frequency, right documentation, right route.
300
The route that places the medication onto the skin or mucous membranes.
What is topical.
300
Small glass containers with a thin neck that you snap off to open.
What is an ampule.
300
The mathematics involved in the processes of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs in the body.
What is Pharmacokinetics.
300
Must be prescribed by a DVM who possesses a DEA license.
What are controlled substances.
300
Regulates the development and approval of all animal topical pesticides.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
400
Uses nebulizers or vaporizers to get the drug into the body.
What is inhalation.
400
Into an articulation or the joint.
What is intraarticular.
400
The process by which the body alters the chemical structure of a drug to render it inactive (or active), and thus preparing it for elimination from the body.
What is biotransformation AKA metabolism
400
The controlled substance schedule (class) with the least potential for abuse.
What is CV.
400
Oral or written order for administration of medication to an animal.
What is a prescription.
500
Placing conjunctival ointment or drops into the eyes as treatment.
What is opthalmic.
500
Around the spinal cord into the cerebral spinal fluid that is at the very tip of the pubic bone.
What is intrathecal/subdural
500
Three different methods the DVM follows in order to choose the correct drug.
What are the empirical method, the diagnostic method, and the symptomatic method.
500
The formula used to determine a drug's therapeutic index.
What is LD50/ED50.
500
Allows the DVM to legally combine or dilute existing medications to better treat their patients.