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Therapeutic index |
Relationship between average effective dose and the average lethal dose |
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What determines lethal dose? |
When given a particular dose, 50% of the people will die |
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Benzodiazepine antagonist |
Flumazenil |
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Benzodiazepine category |
Sedative-hypnotic |
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Opiods category |
Subcategory of narcotics, used to induce sleep and analgesia |
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Opioids and opiates are both.... |
narcotics |
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Opiates |
Drugs derived from natural opium such as heroin which often have little or no medicinal value and are often illicit. |
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Opioids |
Non-opium based synthetic substances with widely accepted therapeutic use. |
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Studying drugs under pharmacology |
Learning to use them to a therapeutic end point. |
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Studying drugs under toxicology |
Drugs have not by been used correctly, are causing harm to the body and need to be neutralized, removed, or their effects controlled. |
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Toxidromes |
Syndrome-like symptoms of a particular class of drug or toxic substance. |
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S/S of narcotic toxidrome |
pinpoint pupils, severe respiratory depression, drowsiness, stupor, coma |
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S/S of BDZ toxidrome |
Uninhibited behavior, drowsiness, ataxia, dysarthria, AMS, respiratory depression, CNS depression, apnea, seizures, coma |
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ataxia |
The loss of full control of bodily movements |
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Dysarthria |
Difficult or unclear articulation of speech that is otherwise linguistically normal |
