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35 Cards in this Set
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What is pharmacognosy?
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The branch of pharmacology dealing with biological, biochemical and economical features of natural medications and their constituents what
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What is the branch of pharmacology dealing with the preparation, dispensing and proper use of medications?
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Pharmacy
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What is the study of dosages?
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Posology
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What is pharmacodynamics?
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Study of the action or effects of medications
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What is the study of use of medications in the treatment is disease?
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Pharmacotherapeutics
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What is the study of poisons?
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Toxicology
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What is considered the "blue bible" of pharmacology?
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The Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy
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The amount of medication to be administered is referred to as what?
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Dose
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What is dose range?
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Term applying to the range between minimum and maximum amounts of a given medication requires to produce the desired effect
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What are the minimum, maximum, and toxic dose?
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Minimum: least amount to produce desired effect
Maximum: largest amount to produce effect w/o being toxic Toxic: least amount that will produce symptoms of poisoning |
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The therapeutic dose is calculated on an average of what?
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Adult male, 24, who weighs app. 150 ibs.
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What are two factors effecting dosage?
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Age and weight
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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 yours rule?
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Age in years/ age in years +12 x adult dose = child's dose
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What has more direct bearing on the dose than any other factor?
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Weight
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What is Clark's rule?
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Weight in ibs / 150 x adult dose = child's dose
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What are some other factors that influence dosage?
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Sex, race, occupation, habitual use, time of administration, frequency of administration, mode of administration
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True or false, females usually require smaller doses than males?
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True
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True of false, black individuals usually require smaller doses and Asians require larger doses than Caucasians?
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False
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True of false, persons working strenuous jobs may require larger doses than those who sit at a desk all day?
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True
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What is the most common method of administering meds?
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Oral
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What method of administration is placing the medication under the tongue?
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Sublingual
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What method of medication is placing the medication between the cheek and the gum?
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Buccal
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Parenteral medication are introduced by what?
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Injection
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When are Parenteral medications examined?
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Upon receiving solution
Periodically while in storage Immediately preceding use |
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When may Parenteral solutions be unfit for use?
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Deterioration from prolonged storage
Accidental contamination occurring packaging Defects |
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What are the methods of Parenteral medications?
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Subcutaneous
Intradermal Intramuscular Intravenous Intrathecal or intraspinal |
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Gas inhalation is almost entirely restricted to what?
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Anesthesia
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What is vaporization?
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Process in which a medication is changed from a liquid or a solid to a gas or vapor by heat
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What is nebulization?
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Medication is converted into a fine spray by the use of compressed gas
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What is the difference of local and systemic effect?
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Local is not absorbed into the blood stream, systemic is
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What are the 6 rights of medication administration?
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Right patient
Right med Right dose Right route Right time Right documentation |
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What medication classification is grouped according to their source whether animal, vegetable, or mineral in origin?
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General
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What medication name is derived from the chemical name, also referred to as the common name?
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Generic name
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What the the brand name?
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Trade name
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