Pharmacy Flashcards
(264 cards)
Deals with biological, biochemical, and economic features of natural meds?
Pharmacognosy
Preparation, dispensing, and proper use of meds?
Pharmacy
Study of dosages and the criteria that influence it?
Posology
Study of the action or the effects of medications on living organisms?
Pharmacodynamics
Uses of meds in the treatment of disease?
Pharmacotherapeutics
Study of poisons?
Toxicology
Science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat, or cure infections?
Therapeutics
Therapeutics may use what treatment method other than medications?
Radiological treatment, diathermy, hydrotherapy
What text sets the standards for the quality, purity, strength and provides standards for medication?
United States Pharmacopeia & National Formulary (USP-NF)
What designates the USP-NF as the official reference for medications marketed in the US?
The U.S. Federal Food, Medication, and Cosmetics Act
How is the reference Drug Facts and Comparisons organized?
Therapeutic medications class
What reference contains quick and concise medication info?
Drug Information Handbook
What is known as the “blue bible” of pharmacology for its wide use in American pharmacies?
Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy
The term “dosage range” is applied what?
The minimum and maximum amount to produce the desired effect
What term describes the least amount of medication required to produce therapeutic effect?
Minimum dose
What term describes the largest amount of medication that can be given without reaching the toxic effect?
Maximum dose
What is the least amount of medication that will produce symptoms of poisoning?
Toxic dose
What term is used to describe the normal adult dose?
Therapeutic dose
What is a minimum lethal dose?
Least amount of med that can produce death
What are the two primary factors affecting dosage?
Age (most common), weight
How is Young’s Rule expressed?
Age in years over age in years plus 12 multiplied by normal adult
What has more direct bearing on the dose than any other factor?
Weight
How is Clark’s Rule expressed?
Pt weight in lbs over 150 times adult dose
Injections may require ________ doses than oral meds?
smaller