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Drug Delivery Flashcards

1
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What characteristics of the patient influence drug formulation?

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  • Patients Needs
  • Their disease state
  • Their pharmacological characteristics.
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What 5 things are to be considered when determining dosage regime?

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  • Any renal/hepatic failure
  • The recommended doses
  • Age & weight
  • Disease
  • Drugs Toxicity
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Where are oral meds absorbed into systemic circulation?

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Oral meds absorped in the GI tract

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4
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Define a suspension:

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Coarse drug particles in a liquid phase

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What type of drugs are used in suspension?

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Insoluble & unpalatable drugs

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What type of patients would use solutoins/suspensions over tablets?

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People with swallowing difficulties including the very young & old.

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How are solution & suspensions delivered?

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By naso-gastric or Peg tubes

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What is the rate limitng step in tablet absorption?

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The tablets break down or “dissolution”

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9
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What are the main advantages of tablet/capsule drugs?

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  • convenient to use
  • accurate doses
  • easily reproducible in mass
  • high drug stability
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Why would you use an enteric coating on a tablet?

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Protect from destructive stomach acid (Allowing it to reach the small intestine) or protect stomach from a toxic drug

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11
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What drugs are enteric coated & why?

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Omeprazole, to protect it from stomach acid
Aspirin to protect the stomach from it.

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Why don’t enteric coated tablets disintegrate till they reach the small intestine?

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Only disintegrate in higher pHs, stomach is very acidic so unchanged in it

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13
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What are the advantages o prodrugs?

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Avoid drug degradation in gut
Prolong duration of action

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What does a prolonged release formulation do?

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Maintains drug level within therapeutic range over a longer period

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How does using prolonged release formulations improve patient compliance?

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Prolonged release formulations need less frequent doses, increasing odds a patient will take them all

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16
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In what 3 forms do prolonged release formulation geerally come?

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Oral tablets
Intramuscular Injection
Surgical implants

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17
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What drugs are delivered by surgical implant?

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Progesterone (contraception)
Testosterone

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18
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What drugs are ideal for buccal/sublingual administration?

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large amount of pre-systemic or first pass metabolism

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19
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Do rectally delivered drugs treat locally or systemically?

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both local & systemic conditions

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20
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For what type of patient are rectal route drugs useful?

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those unable to swallow

21
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In what forms do rectal drugs come?

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Creams
Liquids
Suppositories

22
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Do drugs delivered vaginally treat locally or systemically?

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Vaginal route drugs treat local disease

23
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In what form are most vaginal route drugs?

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Creams

24
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For what type of patient are IV drugs especiall useful?

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Unconscious or comatose patients

25
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Why is IV good for drugs with short half-lives?

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Allows constant infusion so drug level remains within therapeutic range
(instant of spiking & dropping with doses)

26
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Are IV drugs rapid or slow release?

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IV drugs have rapid systemic effects

27
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For what type of drugs is IV delivery especially useful.

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Short half life drugs
Drugs with narrow therapeutic index

28
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what type of drugs are delivered intramuscularly

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Insoluble drugs or those fomrualted in an oil base

29
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Examples of drugs given by subcutaenous injection?

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Heparin
Insulin
Narcotic Analgesics

30
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How long do intramuscular injected drugs work?

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Drugs injected intramuscularly can have sustained effects of up to months

31
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You cant see a patients veins but desperately need to deliver fluid what method do you use?

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Subcutaneuous injection

32
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In what ways are subcutaneous injections deivered?

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  • Dermojet (needles)
  • Solid pellet implanted below skin
  • Pumps (e.g. insulin pump)
33
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Drug is delivered via an adhesive patch on the skin, what delivery method is this?

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Transdermal delivery

34
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How are transdermal drugs absorbed into circulation?

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They cross skin by percutaneous absorbtion

35
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What is percutaneous absorbtion?

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Absorption of a substance through unbroken skin

36
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Are transdermal drugs used for local or systemic effect?

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Transdermal drugs can be systemic or local

37
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Are inhalation drugs used for local or systemic efects?

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Inhalation drugs have local effects.
Only inhaled anaesthetics are systemic.

38
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Why are inhalation drugs useful?

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Drugs delivered direct to site of action with rapid effect & no first pass metabolism.

39
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Why do inhaled drugs only need small doses?

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Only around 5-10% is absorbed systemically so the dose doesnt need to account for absorbtion or metabolism.

40
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Are inhaled drugs more less toxic?

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Administering drugs by inhalation actually reduced adverse effect

41
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Name 4 carier based systems:

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  • Monoclonal antibodies
  • Liposomal carriers
  • Nanoparticles
  • Genetic transfer systems
42
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What do monoclonal antibodies do?

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Bind to cancer-specific antigens
Induce immunological response against cancer

43
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What is a liposomal carrier?

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Liposome packed with drugs, transports through the blood

44
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How do liposomal carriers affect the drugs pharmacokinetics?

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Accumulate at disease sites
Reduced distribution at sensitive tissue

45
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Whats the main benefit of nanoparticle carriers?

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Allow specific targeting/delivery of drugs.

46
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What effect do nanoparticles have on treatment?

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The drug has reduced toxicity while maintaining therapeutic efficiency (beacue its targeted)

47
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What type of organisms are used as vectors for genetic transfer?

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Viruses

48
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How are viruses altered for genetic transfer systems?

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Virus has genes for viral replication removed and therapeutic genes inserted

49
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What does a genetic transfer system do?

A

Altered virus delivers therapeutic gene to target cells

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