QUESTIONS WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ pt left AMA? Answer: against medical advice
◉ Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Answer: talking about
how drugs effect the body and how the body works with different
drugs.
◉ Pharmcokinetics Answer: what the body does to the drug
◉ Pharmacodynamics Answer: what the drug does to the body
◉ Drugs Answer: •Any substance that brings about a change in
biologic function through chemical actions
◉ Poisons Answer: Drugs that have harmful effects
◉ Drugs or medications Answer: synthetic or chemical extraction
◉ Biologics Answer: Hormones, antibodies, vaccines, blood products
,◉ Alternative therapies Answer: Herbals preparations, vitamins
◉ t/f any drugs can be a poison? Answer: true
◉ Prescription Answer: Require order by licensed health care
provider
◉ Over-the-Counter Answer: No order required
◉ Therapeutic Answer: Identifies medication according to
usefulness in treating specific disease
◉ Pharmacologic Answer: Describes how medication works in the
body
◉ Prototype Drug Answer: A well-understood drug model—other
drugs compared to and modeled after the prototype drug for a class
are very similar
◉ Therapeutic Classification
Examples within Cardiovascular System? Answer: Anticoagulant
Antihyperlipidemic
Antihypertensive
,Antidysrhythmic
Antianginal
◉ Anticoagulant Answer: Influences blood clotting
◉ Antihyperlipidemic Answer: Lowers blood cholesterol
◉ Antihypertensive Answer: Lowers blood pressure
◉ Antidysrhythmic Answer: Restore/improves cardiac rhythm
◉ Antianginal Answer: Treat angina
◉ generic med name Answer: •Assigned, less complicated
•ondansetron
◉ Trade/Brand name Answer: •Assigned by marketing company
•Zofran or Atossa
◉ schedule 1 drug Answer: - marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy, Heroin.
, ◉ schedule 1 drug Answer: Classified by the Drug Enforcement
Administration as a drug that has high potential for abuse and no
currently accepted medical use.
◉ Schedule 2 meds Answer: - cocaine, opium, high grade morphine,
oxycodone, adderall (methanphetamines)
◉ Schedule 2 drugs Answer: High potential for abuse and have
medical use with severe restrictions - accepted in US
◉ Schedule 3 meds Answer: low grade morphine, anabolic steroids,
ketamine, certain codeine mixtures
◉ Schedule 3 drugs Answer: • Less abuse potential than schedule
1&2 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Moderate or low physical dependence
• High psychological dependence
◉ schedule 4 drugs Answer: • Lower abuse potential than schedule
3 drugs
• Accepted medical uses
• Limited physical or psychological dependence