Ch 18 Pharmacy - Navedtra 14295B - Hm

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What is the science dealing with the origin, nature, chemistry, effects, & uses of medications?

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Pharmacology

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What is the branch of pharmacology that deals w/ biological, biochemical, & economic features of natural medications & their constituents?

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Pharmacognosy

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What is the branch of pharmacology dealing w/ the preparation, dispensing, & proper use of medications?

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Pharmacy

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What is the study of the dosages of medicines & medications

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Posology

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What is the study of the action or effects of medications on living organisms?

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Pharmacodynamics

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What is the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?

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Pharmacotherapeutics

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What is the study of poisons, their actions, their detection, & the treatment of the conditions produced by them called?

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Toxicology

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What is the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure diseases & infections, or prolong life called?

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Therapeutics

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What provides tests for medication identity, quality, strength, & purity?

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USP-NF

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What is the most widely used text/reference in American pharmacies?

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Remington: The Science & Practice of Pharmacy

(blue bible)

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What is the amount of medication to be administered referred to as

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Dose

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A therapeutic dose is calculated on an average adult male of 24 yo who weighs approx. how many lbs?

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150 lbs

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What is the most common factor that influences the amount of medication to be given?

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Age

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What is the most common method of administering meds?

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Oral

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What type of meds are administered by placing the med under the tongue?

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Sublingual

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What type of meds are administered by placing the med between the cheek & gum?

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Buccal

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What type of meds re introduced by injection?>

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Parenteral

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What is the type of med injected just below the skin's cutaneous layers?

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Subcutaneous

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What type of med is injected w/in the dermis layer of the skin?

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Intradermal

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What type of med is introduced directly into the vein?

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Intravenous

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What is the process called y which a med is converted into a fine spray by the use of compressed gas?

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Nebulization

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How many important steps to follow are there when administering medication to a patient to prevent errors?

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6

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What is any chemical substance called that has an effect on living tissue but is not used as a food?

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Medication

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Medications are classified according to set criteria and fall into 3 specific areas: general, chemical, and what else?

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Therapeutic

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What are medications called the cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?

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Astringents

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What are bland or fatty substances called that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?

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Emollients

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What are agents called that inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?

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Antitussives

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What can be used to reduce congestion and the swelling of mucous membranes?

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Nasal Decongestants

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What substance released by most cells distributed in connective tissues usually near blood vessels promotes some of the reactions associated with inflammation and allergies such as asthma and hay fever?

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Histamine

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What are used to counteract hyperacidity in the stomach?

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Antacids

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Normally oral meds should not be taken within how many hours of taking an antacid?

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2

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What suppress the growth of microorganisms?

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Antiseptics

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What are agents called that are used to disinfect inanimate objects and are primarily germicidal in their action?

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Disinfectants

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What is the standard by which all other antiseptic, disinfectant, and germicidal agents are measured in effectiveness?

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Phenol

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What are a group of semi-synthetic derivatives of cephalosporin C called which is an antimicrobial agent of fungal origin?

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Cephalosporin's

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In what year were Tetracyclines introduced which were the 1st truly broad-spectrum antibiotics?

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1948

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What are a group of meds that share chemical, antimicrobial, pharmacologic, & toxic characteristics, and that are effective against most gram-positive & gram-negative organisms?

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Aminoglycosides

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What are antibiotics constituting a large group of bacteriostatic agents that inhibit protein synthesis known as?

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Macrolides

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What type of medications facilitate the passage and elimination of feces from the colon and rectum?

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Laxatives

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What are agents that increase the rate of urine formation called?

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Diuretics

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What type of meds relieve pain w/out producing unconsciousness or impairing mental capacities?

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Non-narcotic analgesics

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What are used to relieve or reduce fevers?

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Antipyretics

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What are mainly used as sedative-hypnotics, anticonvulsants, anesthetics for short anesthesia, and may be used in combination w/ analgesics to enhance their analgesic effect?

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Barbiturates

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Tranquilizers & mood modifiers are the 2 primary groups of what agents?

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Psychotherapeutic

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What are used to produce constriction of the blood vessels with consequent rise in blood pressure?

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Vasoconstrictors

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What taken in high doses is believed to prevent the common cold, and to treat asthma, atherosclerosis, wounds, schizophrenia, and cancer?

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Vitamin C

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What type of medications produce a rhythmic contraction of the uterus?

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Oxytocics

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In what year did the World Health Org (WHO) declare the global eradication of naturally occurring smallpox?

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1980

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What is the study and science of weights and measures called?

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Metrology

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What is the official system of weights & measures used by Navy Pharmacy Dept for weighing & calculating pharmaceutical preparations?

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Metric System

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What is the relationship of one quantity to another quantity of like value?

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Ratio

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What is the expression of equality of 2 ratios called?

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Proportion

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What are aromatic, sweetened hydroalcoholic solutions containing medicinal substances called?

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Elixirs

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What are coarse dispersions comprised of finely divided insoluble material suspended in a liquid medium called?

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Suspensions

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What are semisolid, fatty, or oily preparations of medicinal substances called?

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Ointments

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What are solid bodies intended to introduce medicinal substances into various orifices of the body called?

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Suppositories

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What are gelatin shells containing solid or liquid medicinal substances to be taken orally called?

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Capsules

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What is used for mixing & measuring various medicinal ingredients?

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Enrlenmeyer flask

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What are conical or cylindrical clear glass containers graduated in specified quantities that are used to measure liquids volumetrically?

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Graduates

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What type of incompatibilities occur when agents antagonistic to one another are prescribed together?

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Therapeutic

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What type of incompatibilities are often called pharmaceutical incompatibilities and are evidence by the failure of the meds to combine properly?

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Physical

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What is any condition called which makes a particular treatment or procedure inadvisable?

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Contraindication

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What is the most important tool used by the pharmacy?

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Prescription

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The DoD Prescription (DD Form 1289) along with the Polyprescription using what form are the two standardized forms used for prescription?

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NAVMED 6710/6

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DD Form 1289

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DoD Prescription

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What part of the prescription lists the name & quantity of the med to be used?

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Inscription

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What part of the prescription gives the directions for the patient?

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Signa

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How many times should the container labels used in filling prescriptions be verified?

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3

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How many schedules (categories) related to a medications potential for abuse, medical usefulness, and degree f dependency, if abused did the Controlled Substance Act of 1970 establish?

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5

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Prescriptions for schedule II substances can never be ordered with refills and in most cases must be filled within how many days of the date originally written?

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7 days

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Prescriptions must be filled w/in 30 days of the date written and may be refilled up to 5x w/in how many months for Schedule III substances?

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6

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What type of substances are primarily antitussives or antidiarrheal?

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Schedule V

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At least how often, or more frequently if necessary, the Controlled Substances Inventory Board (CSIB) takes an unannounced inventory of controlled substances?

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Quarterly