115 Unit 4 Flashcards by Phillip Boshears

____ is opacity of the lens that distorts images projected onto the retina. Can progress blindness and can occur in one or both eyes.

Cataracts

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____is an increase of intraocular pressure due to inadequate drainage of aqueous humor or over production of aqueous humor. A leading cause of irreversible blindness.

Glaucoma

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____ is a disorder that is more common in men, African Americans and the Asian populations.

Glaucoma

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____ is the separation of two layers of the retina.

Retinal Detachment

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____ is the leading cause of blindness in people over 75.

Macular Degeneration

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____ is an object such as dust, gnats, etc. that enter the eye.

Foreign Bodies

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____ is the inflammation and infection of the conjunctiva. “Pink eye”

Conjunctivitis

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____ is the inflammation and infection of the external ear.

External otitis

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____ is the inflammation and infection of the middle ear.

Otitis Media

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____ is a disorder that results in the prevention of sound transmission because the stapes cannot vibrate and carry sound to the inner ear.

Otosclerosis

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____ is a disorder due to the adverse effects of meds.

Ototoxicity

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____ is a disorder that is due to an increased amount of inner ear fluid.

Meniere’s Disease

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____ is to the ear as glaucoma is to the eye.

Meniere’s Disease

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____ is a hearing loss that results from an impairment in transmission of sound from the outer or middle ear or both.

Conductive Hearing Loss

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____ results from damage to the cochlea or vestibulocochlear nerve.

Sensorineural Hearing Loss

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Three types of sensory problems?

Sensory deficits
Sensory deprivation
Sensory Overload

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4 major diseases that frequently cause impaired vision in Americans age 40 and over?

Age related macular degeneration
Glaucoma
Cataracts
Diabetic retinopathy

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____ occurs when problems with sensory reception or perception exists.

Sensory deficit

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____ occurs when inadequate quality or quantity of stimuli impairs perception.

Sensory deprivation

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____ occurs when a person receives multiple sensory stimuli, causing the brain to have difficulty distinguishing the stimuli.

Sensory overload

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____ is a defect in the ability of the lens of the eye to focus light, such as occurs in nearsightedness and farsightedness.

Refractive error

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____ is the process of responding to the environment through new activity and thinking and changing the existing schema or developing a need schema to deal with the new information.

Accommodation

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____ is hearing loss associated with aging, that usually involves both a loss of hearing sensitivity and a reduction in the clarity of speech.

Presbycusis

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____ is the term for ringing in the ears.

Tinnitus

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____ is the gradual decline n the ability of the lens to accommodate or to focus on close objects. Reduces the ability to see near objects clearly.

Presbyopia

____ are adverse events that should never occur in a health care setting.

Never Events

____ affects a person's oxygenation by binding strongly with hemoglobin preventing the formation of oxyhemoglobin, and thus reducing the supply of oxygen delivered to the tissues.

Carbon Monoxide

____ any microorganism capable of producing an illness.

Pathogen

____ is the process by which resistance to an infectious disease is produced or increased.

Immunization

____ are medications such as anxiolytics and sedatives used to manage a patient's behavior and are not a standard treatment for a patient's condition.

Chemical restraints

A ____ is any manual method, physical or mechanical device, material, or equipment that immobilizes or reduces the ability of a patient to move arms, legs, body, or head freely.

Physical restraint

____ is the passage of drug molecules into the blood.

Absorption

____ is a harmful or unintended effect of a medication, diagnostic yes, or therapeutic intervention.

Adverse effect

____ are unfavorable physiological response to an allergen to which a person has previously been exposed and to which the person has developed antibodies.

Allergic reaction

____ is a hypersensitive condition induced by contact with certain antigens.

Anaphylactic reaction

____ is a system of measurement. The basic unit of measurement is a grain.

Apothecary system

____ is the amount of time it take for the body to lower the amount of unchanged medication by half.

Biological half-life

____ is the chemical changes that a substance undergoes in the body, such as by the action of enzymes.

Biotransformation

____ is of or pertaining to the cheek or the gum next to the cheek.

Buccal

____ is to remove the toxic quality of a substance, the liver does this.

Detoxify

____ is the individual sensitivity to effects of a drug caused by inherited or other bodily constitution factors.

Idiosyncratic reaction

____ is the introduction of fluids into the vein through IV.

Infusion

____ is the parenteral administration of medication.

Injection

Four major types of Parenteral Injections:

Subcutaneous, Intramuscular, IV, Intradermal

____ is an injection given between layers of the skin, into the dermis.

Intradermal Injection

____ is an injection given into muscle tissue.

Intramuscular Injection

____ is method of medication delivery the involves inserting a medication disk, similar to a contact lens, into the patients eye.

Intraocular

____ is the maladaptive pattern of recurrent med use

Medication abuse

____ is an adverse reaction to a medication.

Medication Allergy

____ is the maladaptive pattern of medication use in the following patterns, excessive amounts of the medication, increased activities, directed toward obtaining the medication, withdrawal from professional recreational activities.

Medication dependence

___ is any event that could cause or lead to a patients receiving inappropriate drug therapy or failing to receive appropriate drug therapy.

Medication error

____ the response when one drug modifies the action of another drug.

Medication interaction.

____ a process in which you compare the meds your patient took in previous setting, with current medication orders in admission.

Medication reconciliation

____ is a logically organized decimal system of measurement.

Metric system

____ are meds given for eye conditions

Opthalmic medications

____ are drug substances, derived from opium or produced synthetically, that alters perception of pain and that with repeated use may result in physical and psychological dependence.

Opiod

____ involves injecting a medication into body tissues.

Parenteral administration

____ is the time it takes a med to reach its highest effective concentration.

Peak

____ is the study of how drugs enter the the body, reach site of action, are metabolized and exit the body.

Pharmacokinetics

____ is the use of a number of different drugs by a patient who may have one or several health problems.

Polypharmacy

____ is a written direction for a therapeutic agent

Prescription

____ is a breath actuated metered dose inhaler.

PMDI Pressurized Metered Dose Inhaler

____ any reaction or consequence that results from medication or therapy.

Side effect

____ a mixture of one or more substances dissolved in another.

Solution

____ is an injection given into the connective tissue, under the dermis.

Subcutaneous Injection

___ is a route of medication administration in which the med is placed under the tongue.

Sublingual

____ is an effect resulting form two drugs acting synergistically, the effect of the two drugs combined is greater than the effect that would be expected if the individual effects of the two drugs acting alone war added together.

Synergistic effect

____ is a desired benefit of a medication, treatment, or procedure.

Therapeutic effect

____ is an effect of a med that results in an adverse response.

Toxic effect

____ is a medication deliver device in which the medication is saturated on wafer like disk, which is affixed to the patients skin. This method ensures that the patient receives a continuous level of medication.

Transdermal disk

____ the lowest serum concentration of a medication before the next medication dose is administered.

Trough

____ is the technique for injecting irritating preparations into muscle without tracking residual medication through sensitive tissues.

Z-track injection