Intro

Question 1

Therapy

Answer 1

The treatment of disease or disorders, as by some remedial, rehabiltiating or curative process

Question 2

Why is food so important for injured people

Answer 2

The body needs extra fuel to heal itself

Question 3

Nitorgen balance

Answer 3

Nitrogen intake - nitrogen loss

Adults should have a 0 balance

Question 4

How is nutritional status assessed

Answer 4

Anthropometry
Considerations around weight
Lab tests

Question 5

What is nitrogen balance used for

Answer 5

To estimate protein requirements

Question 6

Adults should have a what nitrogen balance

Answer 6

0

Question 7

Who would have a positive nitrogen status

Answer 7

Growing infants, children, adolescents, pregnant women and those recovering from illness should have a positive nitrogen status.

Question 8

Why would someone have a negative nitrogen balance

Answer 8

Negative nitrogen balance means the amount of nitrogen excreted is higher then the amount ingested often associated with malnutrition and other conditions like

Question 9

Sources of nitrogen?

Answer 9

High protein foods

Question 10

Nitrogen output calculated by

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by a 24 hour analysis of urinary urea nitrogen level.

Question 11

Dietary hx includes

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Diabetic
Known allergies
Preferences

Question 12

Dietary assessment

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24 hour recall
Food frequency
Food record
Direct observation

Question 13

IBW

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Ideal Body Weight (Baseline)

Question 14

Rapid weight gain can indicate

Answer 14

Fluid shift

Question 15

When considering abnormal V/S consider

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Previous day to notice trends (improvements), check charts (baseline)

Question 16

Weight loss within ___ percent within one week or ___ percent over one month suggest begginig malnutriton

Answer 16

2, 5

Question 17

BMI

Answer 17

Persons weight in Kg/by square height in metres

Question 18

Why is waist circumference significant?

Answer 18

help to assess obesity-related health risk. Even at a healthy weight, excess fat carried around the waist can increase your risk of high blood pressure, high [blood] cholesterol, heart disease and type-2 diabetes

Question 19

Health is at risk if your waist is greater than

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40 inches for men
35 inches for women

Question 20

Diet drug interaciton examples

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Reduce appetite
Increase appetite and weight gain
Alter absorption, metabolism and exccretion of nutrients
Some interactions can become toxic

Question 21

Drug effects related to eating

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N/V
Diarrhea/constipation
Alters taste
Suppress appetite
Dry mouth
Cause inflammation and lesions in mouth
Sedate
Stimulate food intake (weight gain)

Question 22

Food does what to absorption

Answer 22

Delays absorption

Question 23

How can calcium affect medication

Answer 23

can bind to some antibiotics reducing absorption of both

Question 24

Vitamin K rich foods effect drug

Answer 24

Weaken effect of blood thinner

Question 25

Grapefruit juice effect on druges

Answer 25

Increases blood concentrations of some drugs Cautions same for tangelos and Seville (sour) oranges

Question 26

Herbs that enhance blood thinners

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St Johns Wart Ginsing Garlic etc.

Question 27

Dieretics excrete what with fluid

Answer 27

Calcium, potassium, magnesium

Question 28

Dietary effects on drug excretion

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Inadequate excretion of medications can cause toxicity Excessive losses of medications can reduce the therapeutic effect Urine acidity can affect drug excretion

Question 29

Diff bw generic and trade name drugs

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Generic drugs are less expensive than trade name nut may differ in their bioavaila blility

Question 30

Pharmacokinetics

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The study of the drug as it moves thrugh the body

Question 31

Biotransformation is another word for

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Metabolism

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Metabolism means simply

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Converting a drug to s form that is usually removed from th ebody more easily

Question 33

Minimum Effective conc

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Amount of drug required to produce therapeutic effect

Question 34

Toxic concentration

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Amount of drug that will cause adverse effets

Question 35

Maintenece doses attempt to keep the drug dosage within plasma in

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a thereapeutic range

Question 36

Pharmacodynamics

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How the drug CHANGES in the body Concerned with mechanisms of drug action, and the relationships bw drug conc and respsones in the body

Question 37

Frequency Distribution Curve

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Graph of the number of individuals who respond to a drug at different doses

Question 38

The dose in middle of the frequency distribution curve represents the drug's

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Median effective dose

Question 39

Median lethal dose

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A dosage deterined in preclinical trials as part of the drug development process, uit is the dose that will be lethal to 50% of people

Question 40

Therapeutic index

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A ratio of the drugs Lethal dose to it's effective dose The larger the differnce bw these doses , the greater the tereapeutic index

Question 41

A potent drug is one that will

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Produce a therapeutic effect at a lower dose compared with another drug in the same clas

Question 42

rug efficancuy

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the magnitutde of maxismjm response that can be produced from a particular drug