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time, and right route. Five additional rights include the right assessment, docu- mentation, education, evaluation, and the righ ...
Healthcare providers should also make sure they use the proper system of measurement when calculating a dose (see Chapter 4 Prin ...
Subcutaneous (beneath skin): injection Intramuscular (in muscle): injection Intravenous (in vein): injection Nasogastric and ga ...
The name of the medication Why the medication is given What the medication looks like How much of the medication to take When t ...
Before a drug is manufactured and released for public use, it must undergo a series of tests that begin with animal studies and ...
Herbals are tested and regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. (a) True (b) False All drug side effects are harmful. (a) ...
2 CHAPTER 23 Drug Action and Drug Interactions “Just give me the magic pill to make me normal again.” You probably said some- th ...
Drug Actions Drug action is the physiochemical interaction between the drug molecule and mole- cules in the body that alters a p ...
able for absorption. Drugs contain an active ingredient and inactive ingredients. The active ingredient is the substance that ca ...
PHARMACOKINETICS Pharmacokinetics is the study of the drug concentration during absorption, dis- tribution, and elimination of a ...
apeutic will depend on how fast the drug is absorbed. How long the drug will be effective and how much drug is needed depends on ...
molecules and a carrier must be used to transport the water-soluble drugs across the GI membrane and into the bloodstream. This ...
Form: tablet, capsule, slow-release, liquid, transdermal patch, suppository, and inhalation. Route: PO (mouth), topical, parent ...
therapeutic use. This process can be reversed when free drug is excreted from the body. The drug molecule is released from the p ...
accumulation of free drug that could reach toxic levels. Two drugs that are highly protein bound—such as Coumadin (warfarin) and ...
nates weak base drugs; alkaline urine (8.0) eliminates weak acid drugs. The pH of urine can be altered to increase the eliminati ...
The First Pass Effect The most common way drugs are administered is orally, by swallowing a pill. The drug is then absorbed into ...
The response time is plotted on a time–response curve that shows the onset time response, the peak time response, and the durati ...
an antagonist is determined by the inhibitory (I) action of the drug concentration on the receptor site. An inhibitory action of ...
The drug’s Therapeutic Index (TI) identifies the margin of safety of the drug and is a ratio between the therapeutic dose in 50% ...
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