Hospital Corpsman Ch 18 Pharmacy

Question 1

What term describes the branch of pharmacology dealing with bilogical, biochemical and echonimic features of natural medications and their constituent?

Answer 1

Pharmacognosy

Question 2

What term describes the branch of pharmacology dealing with the preparation, dispensing and proper use of medications?

Answer 2

Pharmacy

Question 3

What is the study of the dosages of medicines and medications?

Answer 3

Posolgy

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Pharmacodynamics

Question 5

What term describes the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?

Answer 5

Pharmacotherapeutics

Question 6

What term describes the study of poisons, their actions, their detection and the treatment of the conditions produed by them?

Answer 6

Toxicology

Question 7

What term describes the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure disease and ifections, or prolong life?

Answer 7

Therapeutics

Question 8

What text sets the standards for the quality, purity, strength, and consistency and provides standards for medications on therapeutic usefulness and pharmaceutical necessity?

Answer 8

United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary (USP-NF)

Question 9

What federal Act deisgnated the USP-NF as teh official reference for medications marketed in the United States?

Answer 9

U.S. Federal Food, Medication, and Cosmetics Act

Question 10

Waht text is a comprehensive medication information reference that is organized by therapeutic medication class?

Answer 10

Drug Facts and Comparisons

Question 11

What text is an easy to use reference for clinicans and healthcare providers seeking quick and concise medication information?

Answer 11

Drug information handbook

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy

Question 13

What text is known as the “blue bible” of pharmacology?

Answer 13

Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy

Question 14

What term describes the amount of medication to be administered?

Answer 14

Dose

Question 15

What term describes the study of dosage and the criteria that influences it?

Answer 15

posology

Question 16

What term describes the range between the minimum and maximum amounts of a given medication required to produce the desired effect?

Answer 16

Dosage Range

Question 17

What term describes the largest amount of medication that can be given without reaching the toxic effect?

Answer 17

Maximum dose

Question 18

What term describes the normal adult dose?

Answer 18

Therapeutic dose

Question 19

What term describes the least amount of medication that can prodcue death?

Answer 19

Minimum lethal dose

Question 20

What are the two primary factors that determine or influence the dosage of a medication??

Answer 20

Age

Weight

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Age

Question 22

What has a more direct bearing on the dose than any other factor?

Answer 22

Weight

Question 23

What is the rule governing calculation of pediatric doses by age?

Answer 23

Young’s Rule

Question 24

What is Young’s Rule?

Answer 24

age in years/age in years +12 x adult = child’s dose

Question 25

What is the rule governing calculating pediatric dose by weight?

Answer 25

weight in lbs/150 x adult dose = child's dose

Question 26

What are some "other" factors that influence dosage?

Answer 26

Sex Frequency of admin Race Mode of Amin Occupaiton Hapitual use Time of adminsitration

Question 27

What are the advantatges of oral medications?

Answer 27

Convenient Cheaper Do not have to be sterile or pure Wide variety of dosage

Question 28

What are the disadvantages of oral medications?

Answer 28

Patients may have difficult swallowing Absorbed too slowly Can be destroyed in digestive sytem

Question 29

How many times are Parenteral solutions examined before they are ultimately used?

Answer 29

Three 1. Upon receiving the solution 2. Periodically while is storage 3. Immediately preceding use

Question 30

What are the methods of Parenteral adminstration?

Answer 30

``` Subcutaneous Intradermal Intramuscular Intravenous Inrathecal or Intraspinal ```

Question 31

What are the three types of Inhalation medication administration?

Answer 31

Vaporization Gas Inhalation Nebulization

Question 32

What are the two purposes topical medications serve?

Answer 32

Local effect | Systemic effect

Question 33

What are the "rights" of medication adminstration?

Answer 33

``` Right patient Right medication Right dose Right route Right time Right Documentation ```

Question 34

Whats the classification for medications that are grouped according to their source whether animal, vegatable, or minderal in orgin?

Answer 34

General

Question 35

Whats the classification for medications that are grouped by their chemical characteristics?

Answer 35

chemical

Question 36

What the classification for medications that are grouped according to their action on the body?

Answer 36

Therapeutic (pharmacological)

Question 37

What type of medication "name" relates to the chemical and molecular structures?

Answer 37

Chemcial name

Question 38

What type of medication "name" is often derived from the chemical name?

Answer 38

Generic name

Question 39

What type of medication "name" is the proprietary name given by the manufactuer?

Answer 39

Brand name (trade name)

Question 40

What class of medication cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?

Answer 40

Astringents

Question 41

What is the generic name for Burrow's solution or Domeboro?

Answer 41

Aluminum acetate solution

Question 42

What class of medications is mainly used to stop seepage from mucous membranes?

Answer 42

Astringents

Question 43

How is aluminum acetate usually used?

Answer 43

As a wet to dry dressing for the relief of inflammatory conditions of the skin, such as athlete's foot, poison ivy, swelling, external otitis, bruises and insect bites

Question 44

What is the brand name for Theobroma oil?

Answer 44

cocoa butter

Question 45

What class of medications are bland or fatty substance that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?

Answer 45

Emollients

Question 46

What is a good emollient that provides a highly occlusive protective barrier?

Answer 46

Petrolatum (petroleum jelly)

Question 47

What class of medication is known as brochomucotropic agents?

Answer 47

Expectorants

Question 48

What medications assist in the removal of secretions or exudates from the trachea, bronchi or lungs?

Answer 48

Expectorants

Question 49

What class of medication inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?

Answer 49

Antitussives

Question 50

What is the generic name for Robitussin DM?

Answer 50

guaifenesin and dextromethorphan

Question 51

What medication is synthetic non-narcotic derivative of codeine and acts as an antitussive?

Answer 51

dextromethorphan

Question 52

What is the generic name for Robitussin AC?

Answer 52

Guaifenesin and codeine phosphate

Question 53

What is the generic name for Actifed?

Answer 53

Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and Triprolidine hydrochloride

Question 54

What class of medication is triprolidine hydrochloride?

Answer 54

Antihistamine

Question 55

What is the gerneric name for Mucinex D?

Answer 55

Guaifenesin and Pseudoeephedrine

Question 56

What are some uses for diphenhydamine?

Answer 56

acitve and prophylacit treatment of motion sickness nightime sleep aid Uticaria Allergic rhinits

Question 57

What antihistamine is given to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting and dizziness of motion sickness and has a longer duration than benadryl?

Answer 57

Meclizine

Question 58

What are some brand names for meclizine?

Answer 58

Antivert | Bonine

Question 59

What antihistamine may also be used to control nausea and vomiting in connection with radiation sickness?

Answer 59

Dimenhydrinate(Dramamine)

Question 60

What is the generic name for Dramamine?

Answer 60

Dimenhydrinate