Anesthesia Vocabulary Flashcards
a drug that activates its receptor upon binding
Agonist
Drug that binds to a receptor without activating that receptor
Antagonist
A pharmacologic antagonist that can be overcome by increasing the concentration of agonist
Competitive Antagonism
Another name: Allsteric inhibitor
An antagonist that prevents the biological response of an agonist without competing with the agonist on the same binding site on the receptor.
Non - Competitive Antagonism
A drug that binds to its receptor but produces a smaller effect (Emax) at full agaonist
Partial Agonist
Shut down the reponse does not allow the active drug to bing to the site
Inverse Agonist
Decrease reponse to the same drug
Tolerance
What the body does to the drug
ADME
Pharmacokinetics
represents the dilution volume at the instant the drug is introduced into the plasma
Central Volume
tissue receiving high arteial flow
Vessel Rich Group
reactions and processes where the rate and half-life are independent of the reactants’ concentrations.
Zero - Order Processes
a constant percentage of the drug is lost per unit time.
First - Order processes
a dependent variable, related directly to volume of distribution and inversely to clearance
Elminination Half -time
time of body to eliminatie 50% of drug
Elminination Half - Life
defined as the time taken for blood plasma concentration of a drug to decline by one half after an infusion designed to maintain a steady state has been stopped
Context - sensitive Half -time
the rate at which a drug is removed from plasma(mg/min) divided by the concentration of that drug in the plasma (mg/mL)
Clearance
What the drug does to the body
Pharmacodynamics
the study of the different spatial arrangements of atoms in molecules
Stereochemistry
a moleucle with a center of 3 dimenstional asymmetry
Chirality
Pairs of molecules that are mirror images
Enantiomerism
enantiomers present in equal proportion
Racemic
Focus on the gene (not everyone respone the same to same drug)
Phamacogenetics
temporary loss of recall
Amnesia
is the most effective way to protect the public from a defective or potentially harmful product
Recall
altered level of consicousness
Minimal, Moderate, deep
Sedation (3 depths)
an anesthetic used to induce unconsciousness during surgery. The medicine is either inhaled through a breathing mask or tube, or given through an intravenous (IV) line
General Anesthesia
the inability to feel pain
Analgesia
Pain reponse from typically non-painful stimulation
Allodynia
An abnormally increased sensitivity to pain
Hyperalgesia
the enhancement of a directly elicited drug effect, though adaptive, appears to represent facilitation within a system
Sensitization
occurs when a health condition affects the nerves that carry sensations to your brain
Neuropathic pain
Pain related to muscles, skeleton
Somatic pain
pain related to activation of noicreptors in throrax, abdomen, pelivs
Visceral pain
pain in a nerve pathway
Neuralgia
rapidly diminishing response to successive doses of a drug, rendering it less effective
Tachyphylaxis