TEST 3 Flashcards
Children exhibit different pharmacokinetics from adults because of their (4) reasons
Lower protein binding (more free drug = greater effect)
Larger volume of distribution (Vd) “jellyfish” (required larger loading dose of water soluble meds to achieve clinical effect)
Smaller proportion of fat and muscle stores (less redistribution into muscle/fat mass = large initial blood concentration)
Immature renal and hepatic function (less metabolism and elimination)
(MM) What drugs will have a LARGER volume of Vd in the infant compared with the adult?
What drugs will have a SMALLER volume of Vd in the infant compared with the adult?
Water soluble drugs = LARGER Vd
Lipid soluble drugs = SMALLER Vd
Along with the factors and individual differences in drug metabolic enzymes in children, a drug’s metabolism may be ____ and/or ______ elimination.
In some cases, it may ______ metabolism.
Reduced
Delay
Increase
Pharmacokinetics in children, some medications may displace bilirubin from its ____ ____ ____ and possible predispose an infant to ____.
Protein binding sites
Kernicterus
Pharmacokinetics: it is important to carefully ____ of all medications that are administered to ____ and ____ infants to the desired response.
Titrate doses
Preterm and term
There are (2) reasons why neonates require a ____ dose of succinylcholine compared with the adult. Neonates have a ____ Vd for succinylcholine than adults.
Higher
Larger
___ -____% of body weight of neonate is extracellular fluid (ECF) whereas in the adult ECF is only ____-____ of the body weight.
40-50%
20-25%
_____ distributes in the ECF volume-so more drug is needed on a per kg basis.
Succinylcholine
The neuromuscular junctions in neonates are ____ (less sensitive or more resistant to its neuromuscular effects), so more SUX is needed to compete with ACh at the NMJ.
Immature
Neonates require ____ as much succinylcholine on a body weight basis than older children or adults.
TWICE
The neonate has a ____ sensitivity to nondepolarizing NMB agents than the adult and would require a ____ amount of the drug.
GREATER
Smaller amount
Nondepolarizing NMBs acts as a ____ ACh antagonists at the ____ neonatal NMJ.
Competitive
Immature
Neonates/infants have a ____ Vd for muscle relaxants and would require a ___ amount of the drug.
greater Vd
Greater amount of the drug
The ____ Vd (normally requiring a greater amount of drug) is offset by the ____ sensitivity of nondepolarizing muscle relaxants at the NMJ.
Increased
Increased
Neonates, infants, children require the ___ dose of nondepolarizing neuromuscular relaxants as adults on a weight basis.
Same
CNS effects: Lab data have demonstration that the ____ (lethal dose in 50%) for many medications to be significantly less in the neonatal animals than ___ animals.
LD 50
Adult
CNS effects: the sensitivity of human neonates to most the sedatives, hypnotics, narcotics is clinically well known and may be in part related to ____ or ___ for some medications
Increased brain permeability
immature BBB
___ ____ in infants may make it easier for drugs that are not particular lipid soluble to enter the brain at a greater rate than if the BBB were intact.
Incomplete myelination
Volatile concentration INCREASES more rapidly in alveoli in children than adults. That results from (3) things
High level of alveolar ventilation (Va) in relation to FRC)
Higher proportion of vessel-rich tissues that rapidly equilibrate with blood vessels
Lower blood-gas partition coefficients of volatile anesthetics in infants
Excretion/recovery of inhaled anesthetics is also ___ in children than adults.
Quick __ -> Quick ___.
Faster
Quick on -> Quick Off
What kind of a drug is toradol?
NSAID with potent analgesic properties
What age can you start using ketorlac?
Age of 2
What can toradol be used as?
An adjuvant to opioid analgesia to reduce potential respiratory depression/ PONV or for treatment of mild to moderate pain
What patients should you use ketorlac with caution in?
Patients with renal problems, reduced renal blood flow and in asthmatic patients (allergic reactions to NSAIDS)