Pharmacodynamics/Pharmacokinetics Flashcards
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Define Pharmacokinetics
The quantitative study of absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs and their
metabolites.
4 processes studied by Pharmacokinetics
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism
Excretion
“What the body does to a drug”
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetics allows the clinician to predict the drug ____________and thus the ____________ with time.
concentration at the site of action; intensity of the drug’s effect
Pharmacokinetics measures and calculates those parameters
VECBECR Volume of Distribution Effect site equilibration time(onset of action once med is given) Context sensitive half life (lipid soluble drug) Bioavailability Elimination half life Clearance Recovery time
Cell membrane and lipid soluble substances
Highly permeable
Since the cell is also permeable to water and other small lipid in-soluble substances it is postulated that the lipid membrane
has channels or pores that allow these substances to penetrate the cell.
• Simple diffusion Definition- characterized by the
rate of _________ both _____and _____of small size
transfer of a substance across a membrane from area of high concentration to an area of low concentration. Both lipid soluble and lipid in-soluble molecules of small size.
• Filtration-
When a porous membrane allows the flow of a solvent and the substances dissolved in it to except for large molecules (ex. glomerular filtration).
Most of the drugs given in anesthesia are
supplied in the form of a_________
salt solution.
• The active molecule of anesthesia is either a
weak acid or weak base.
• The active portion can be recognized as an
acid or a base by the
name given to the salt form.
If the active moiety is an acid, the acid
is listed
If the active moiety is a base, the base
will be listed
last (sodium thiopental)
first (Lidocaine HCl,
Morphine Sulfate)
• Acids (donate or accept protons)
donate protons
Bases (donate or accept protons)
accept protons
Henderson-Hasselbach equation
pH = pKa + log Proton acceptor/ Proton donor
Cell membranes are more permeable to which portion of a drug?
non-ionized portion of a drug.
The Henderson-Hasselbach equation helps to predict _____________Given the ________of that particular solution and the drugs ____
the portion of ionization of a given drug in solution given the pH of that particular solution and the drugs pKa
When pH=pKa, what can be infered?
50% of the drug is ionized and 50% in non- ionized.
Lower pKa= ______acid
stronger acid,
Higher pKa = ________base
stronger base.
A general rule with WEAK BASES states when the pKa minus pH < 0, then most of the drug will be in the
non-ionized form.
With WEAK ACIDS, the opposite is true. pKa minus pH < 0 then most of the drug will be in the
Ionized form
Weak acids will be more non-ionized in an ________therefore ________ is better
acidic solution (absorption, distribution).