Week 9 Flashcards
What is an AHP
Administrative health professional
What is Pharmacology?
The Study and description of drugs including their composition, actions and effects.
It examines the effects drugs and chemicals have on living things
A single drug can have up to how many names?
4
What does the Drug Name - Chemical mean?
The exact formula
What does the Drug Name - Generic mean?
Official name assigned to it
What does the Drug Name - Trade mean?
Brand Name
What does the Drug Name - Botanical mean?
Name referring to natural substance a drug is made of
What are controlled drugs?
Drugs with a high potential for addiction or miuse
What is (CDSA)
Controlled Drug and Substances Act
What are the classifications by use?
- Therapeutic
- Diagnostic
- Curative
- Replacement drugs
- Prophylactic drugs
What kind of use of classification is this: given to prevent a condition or decrease the severity
Prophylactic drugs
What kind of use of classification is this: taken to replace a hormone or substance the body can’t produce
Replacement drugs
What kind of use of classification is this: given to overcome a disease, infection or other conditions
Curative
What does Local Scop of Action mean?
Local or topical effect only at site of application
What does Systemic Scope of Action mean?
Circulating through the blood stream, most oral drugs
What does Cumulative Scope of Action mean?
Drug accumulates in the body faster than it can be metabolized or excreted
What is an example of a topical/transdermal ?
Steroid cream
What is an example of a Transdermal Patch?
Smoking Cessation
What does Otic route mean?
Directly on the ear, drops
What does Ophthalmic route mean?
Eye drops or ointments
What does Sublingual or Buccal Route mean?
Under the tongue or between the cheek and gum
What does the route Parenteral mean?
Various types of injections or intravenously
What is Pharmacokinetics?
The study of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion
Absorption means what?
How the drug was taken into the body - the route, the form in which the drug is taken, was the medication taken on a full or empty stomach
