Drug Absorption Flashcards
What are the 4 jobs of a doctor?
Curing patients
Harming patients
Hospitalization
Death
What is pharmaceutical process?
Getting the drug into the patient.
What is the pharmacokinetic process?
Getting the drug to the site of action.
What is the pharmacodynamic process?
Producing the correct pharmacological effect.
What is the therapeutic process?
Producing the correct therapeutic effect.
What are the 4 basic factors that determine drug pharmacokinetics? ADME
Absorption
Distribution
Metabolism
Elimination
What 5 things does ADME help us understand?
Dosage Drug administration Drug handling Patient variability Potential for harm
Define absorption.
The process of movement of unchanged drug from the site of administration to the systemic circulation.
What is there always a correlation between plasma concentration and?
Therapeutic Response
What are the 2 important issues of oral absorption?
Amount of drug which enters the systemic circulation.
Speed at which this happens.
The more rapid the rate of absorption, the ______ the drug concentration peak.
Earlier
Increasing dose does/does not affect the time at which peak concentration is reached but does/ does not increase the peak concentration.
Does not
Does
The area under the drug concentration-time curve represents the amount of drug which reaches the ______ circulation.
Systemic
What is therapeutic range?
The range of concentrations a drug is active at.
What happens if the concentration of drug is greater than the therapeutic range?
Toxicity
What happens if the concentration of drug is lower than the therapeutic range?
Insufficient or no pharmacological action.
What is the therapeutic index?
Measure of the range at which a drug is safe and active.
What does AUC allow to be measured?
Estimate the amount of drug which reaches the circulation and which is available for action.