Pharmacology | Questions & Answers
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T/F: A drug acting as an antagonist is best described as a drug that
works by binding to a receptor and preventing the binding of other
agonists.
- Correct Answer - True
T/F: When drugs interact with enzymes, they most commonly inhibit
them from catalyzing reactions within cells.
- Correct Answer - True
T/F: Generally as a patient ages they require more of a drug than their
younger counterpart.
- Correct Answer - False, as patients age they are more sensitive to the
effects of drugs and it takes them longer to eliminate them from the
body, therefore they generally need less drug than their younger
counterpart.
,When drugs are being approved by the FDA there are two factors that
the drug company must have evidence for- select the one listed below:
-Safety
-Purity
Better efficacy than what is already available
-No side effects - Correct Answer - Safety
Describe the purpose of post marketing surveillance. - Correct Answer -
The process by which a drug company monitors the safety of a drug
after it is released to market to ensure the long-term safety of a drug.
Which pregnancy category represents a drug that has not been studied
in pregnant women, but when studied in animals have showed no harm?
- Correct Answer - Category B
T/F: Medication errors are defined as adverse events based on human
error that could not be prevented. - Correct Answer - False, medication
errors are adverse events that happen based on human error but they
can be prevented.
Each of the following providers have the authority to prescribe
medications EXCEPT: - Correct Answer - Pharmacists
T/F: Drug schedules are set at the federal level. - Correct Answer - True
, A physician orders 25 mg of a drug to be given twice daily. It is only
available in a 50 mg/5 ml syrup. How much of the syrup would you
instruct the patient to take? - Correct Answer - 2.5 mL BID
A physician orders 100mg of a drug that is available in 250mg/10ml.
How many milliliters is needed for this order? - Correct Answer - 4 mL
Branch of science that focuses on study of substances (drugs) that
interact with living organisms through chemical processes (such as
binding to regulatory molecules & activating or inhibiting normal body
processes) as well as the effects of the living organism with the drug
- Correct Answer - Pharmacology
science of substances used to prevent, diagnose, and treat disease
- Correct Answer - Medical or therapeutic pharmacology
Discipline that studies the absorption, distribution, metabolism and
elimination of drugs is. What the body does to the drug...
1. Pharmacodynamics
2. Pharmacokinetics
3. Toxicology