Dosage form

Question 1

Solid dosage forms include what?

Answer 1

tablets
capsule
enteric-coated tablets

Question 2

A tablet is made of what?

Answer 2

made of a pressed powder

Question 3

What determines what the tablet is used for?

Answer 3

How hard the powder is pressed

Question 4

A sublingual tablet is made to do what?

Answer 4

dissolve quickly under the tongue and therefore must not be pressed hard into a dense tablet.

Question 5

A nitroglycerin tablet is an example of what type of tablet?

Answer 5

A sublingual tablet thus made to dissolve quickly so to be rapidly absorbed into the system.

Question 6

Most tablets are coated with what?

Answer 6

A protective coating (a “film” coat”) to protect the drug

Question 7

The enteric tablet is coated with what?

Answer 7

a hard-shell coating designed to protect the drug from acid in the stomach

Question 8

What is the coating of an enteric tablet designed to do?

Answer 8

protect the drug from stomach acid

Question 9

The drugs contained in enteric tablets (under the hard coat) are normally best absorbed where?

Answer 9

in the basic pH of the duodenum

Question 10

What is an enteric tablet that is the exception to how enteric tablets are expected to act?

Answer 10

enteric coated aspirin which is coated so that it will not dissolve in the stomach and subject the stomach lining to its effects.

Question 11

The capsule is what type of container?

Answer 11

A solid dosage form; a gelatin “container” that can be filled with: a powder, drug granules, a liquid drug formulation, or an oil. The

Question 12

The lozenge is what type of dosage form

Answer 12

A solid dosage form; a hard tablet or molded shaped containing drug on a sweetened flavored base.

Question 13

The lozenge is designed to do what?

Answer 13

Be held in the mouth while slowly releasing the drug for absorption

Question 14

The lozenge is particularly useful for administration of what?

Answer 14

pain medication for chronic pain, and for the relief of nausea during cancer chemotherapy.

Question 15

What type of dosage form is drug powders for inhalation?

Answer 15

A solid dosage form; a very fine crystalline form of the drug is mixed with an inert sugar and packaged into a single-dose “blister” which is then inserted into a “diskhaler” which pierces the blister, aerosolizes the drug and allows the patient to inhale the medication

Question 16

What are the three common liquid dosage forms

Answer 16

• Syrup
• elixir
• extract

Question 17

A syrup is what type of dosage form?

Answer 17

A liquid dosage form; it is a sweetened liquid that contains the drug, sugar and flavoring

Question 18

An elixir is what type of dosage form?

Answer 18

Similar to a syrup; it is a sweetened liquid that contains the drug, sugar and flavoring however it has a relatively high percentage of alcohol.

Question 19

An extract is what type of dosage form?

Answer 19

A liquid dosage form; it is an oil or active portion of plant or herb that is usually removed, or extracted with alcohol.

Question 20

If the drug dissolves completely into the liquid like a syrup or elixir then it is what?

Answer 20

A solution

Question 21

A suspension is composed of what?

Answer 21

water and drug particles that do not dissolve but remain suspended in the water

Question 22

Why do suspensions need to be handled with care?

Answer 22

The drug particles tend to sink to the bottom very quickly so mixing and drawing the dose can be tricky. The withdrawal of the drug dose must be done immediately after mixing, before the drug particles have a chance to settle.

Question 23

What happens if a suspension is not mixed properly or the dose is not drawn immediately?

Answer 23

The wrong dose of the drug may be dispensed. If the dose is taken from the top of the container, it may contain too much water and not enough drug. If it is taken from the bottom, the drug solution may be too concentrated because the drug particles tend to sink.