Ch1. Orientation to Pharmacology

Question 1

What term describes the medical use of drugs?

Answer 1

Therapeutics

Question 2

Which refers to the use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, treat or prevent disease?

Answer 2

therapeutics

Question 3

What refers to the study of drugs in humans?

Answer 3

clinical pharmacology

Question 4

What is any chemical that can affect living processes?

Answer 4

drug

Question 5

What is the study of drugs and their interactions with living systems?

Answer 5

pharmacology

Question 6

What are the three most important properties of an ideal drug?

Answer 6

effectiveness
safety
selectivity

Question 7

What is the most important property a drug can have?

Answer 7

effectiveness

Question 8

What is the therapeutic objective of drugs?

Answer 8

provide max benefit with min harm

Question 9

What are the factors that determine the intensity of drug responses?

Answer 9

administration
pharmacokinetics
pharmacodynamics
sources of individual variation

Question 10

What is the difference between pharmacokinectics & pharmacodynamics?

Answer 10

Pharmacokinectics
- how much of the administered dose gets to its sites of action
- impact of the body on drugs via absorption, distribution, metabolism & excretion

Pharmacodynamics
- impact of drugs on the body
-drug-receptor interaction & pt functional state.