Ch1 Flashcards
Drug therapy
Treatment with drugs
Diet therapy
Treatment with diet (e.g. a low-salt diet for pt with cardiovascular disease)
Physiotherapy
Treatment with natural physical forces (e.g. water, light, heat)
Psychological therapy
The identification of stressors and methods that can be used to reduce or eliminate stress.
Biological therapies
A treatment used to transform pt with disorders that attack the body’s own tissue, organs, and cells (autoimmune disorders), blood (hematology disorders), and cancers.
Chemical drug name is
The most meaningful to the chemist. By means of the chemical name, the chemist understands the exact chemical constitution of the drug and the exact placement of its atoms or molecular groupings.
Generic name is
A common name and most often the official name. The generic name is simpler than the chemical name. May be used in any country and by any manufacturer. The first letter is not capitalized. The generic medicine is routinely substituted for the brand-name medicine. Provided by U.S. adopted names council, organizations sponsored by U.S. pharmacopeia convention, the American medical association, and the American pharmacists association. Listed by the (FDA)
Brand name is
Trademark name, followed by symbol R with circle around it, this indicates name is registered typically by manufacturer. Most companies place product on market by brand name. Names deliberately made easier to pronounce, spell, and remember. First letter of brand name is capitalized.
The United States pharmacopeia (USP)/National Formulary (NF)
Is revised annually. Creates standards thar are enforced by the FDA as the official standards for manufacture and quality control of medicine and nutritional supplements in US. Insert is required to be accompanied each medication.
Insert helps reduce medication errors and improve pt education. Labeling reduces practitioners time look up, decrease preventable medication errors, improve treatment effectiveness and pt education. Developed after 2006.
DailyMed is
Online resources that provides database for new package insert that is searchable by product name, indictions, dosage and administration, warnings, description of drug product. Active and inactive ingredients, and how drug is supplied
Electronic databases
The national library of medicine provides Medline and other searchable database at no cost. CINAHAL (cumulative index to nursing and Allied health literature) informaton from sources published in US.
UpToDate, Lexicomp, and ePocrates: provide high quality information about market drugs
The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1983
Requires FDA to determine the safety of drug before marketing and ensure that certain labeling specifications and standards in advertising are met in marketing of products. Manufacturers are required to submit to FDA for review of safety studies before product can be released for sale.
Durham Humphrey amendment of 1951
Amendment of federal food, drug, and cosmetic act if 1938, divides medicine into prescription and nonprescription (OTC) categories based on safety. Rx medication labels required yo contain “caution: federal law prohibits dispensing w/o a prescription” or “ prescription only”
The Kefauver- Harris drug amendment
Brought about in 1962 as a result of the thalidomide tragedy. Now provides greater control and surveillance of the distribution and clinical testing of investigational drugs. Must be proven both safe and effective before release for sale.
The comprehensive drug abuse prevention control act. (Controlled substances abuse act)
Passed by congress in 1970. This statue repealed almost 50 other laws written between 1914-1970 related to drug control. This consists of five 5 classification or schedules. Degree of control, conditions of record keeping, the particular order forms required, and other regulations depend on these classification.
