APEX: PharmacoKinetics Flashcards
What is the loading dose?
The amount of a drug that must be administered to quickly achieve a therapeutic plasma concentration.
The Vd describes what relationship?
Relationship between a drug’s plasma concentration following a specific dose. It is a theoretical measure of how a drug distributes throughout the body
What are the 2 things that Vd assumes?
The drug distributes instantaneously (Full equilibration occurs at t=0)
The drug is not subject to biotransformation or elimination before it fully distributes.
Vd is a calculated
Value and it is something we can directly measures.
Vd formula
Vd = amount of drug/ desired plasma concentration
Concentration is a measure of
amount per volume
Total body water is
42L
Total body water divisions
Extracellular 14
Intracellullar 28
Extracellular volume division
Plasma volume 4L
Interstitial fluid 10L
A drug with a Vd that exceed total body water
> 0.6L/kg or >42L ) is asssumed to be lipophillic.
Lipophillic drug distributes into the
Total body water as well as into fat.
Meaning of lipophilic drugs as far as plasma concentration:
Higher dose to achieve a given plasma concentration. Propofol has a very large Vd
A drug with a VD less than TBW is assumed to be
Hydrophillic.
Hydrophillic drugs does not distribute into _____Therefore_____
FAT therefore requires a lower dose to achieve a given plasma concentration.
Example of hydrophillic drugs
NMB are restricted to the ECF and have a comparatively small Vd
Vd is affected by what drugs characteristics
Molecular size
Ionization
Protein binding
patient characteristics(pregnancy and burns)
The higher the Vd
the higher the loading dose must be given to achieve the predetermined plasma concentration.
For an IV mediation, bioavailability equals one since it is
injected directly into the bloodstream.
Dose that achieves a given plasma concentration is
Dependent on the route of administration.
Clearance is directly proportional to
Blood flow to clearing organ
Extraction ratio
What is clearance?
volume of plasma that is cleared of drug per unit of time
Clearance relationship to blood flow?
Clearance is directional proportional to blood flow to the clearing organ, extraction ratio, and drug dose.
Clearance relationship to drug concentration?
CL is inversely proportional to half life and drug concentration on the central compartment.
Cl is directly proportional to (BED)
Blood flow to clearing organ
Extraction ratio
Drug dose