EC Chp 16 General Pharmacology

Question 1

Pharmacology

Answer 1

The study of drugs, their sources, their characteristics and their effects

Question 2

Aspirin is used for what

Answer 2

To reduce clotting ability of blood to prevent and treat clots associated with myocardial infarction

• patients with chest pain of suspected cardiac origin
• chewable ones

Question 3

Oral glucose

Answer 3

A form of glucose given by mount to trace an awake patient who is unable to swallow with an altered mental stands and has a history of diabetes

Placed under the tongue

Question 4

Oxygen

Answer 4

Pure oxygen is used to treat any patient whose medical or traumatic condition may cause him to be hypoxia or low on oxygen

Question 5

Activated charcoal

Answer 5

Used to treat poisoning or overdoses

It absorbs the poison and helps prevent the body from absorbing it.

Question 6

Examples of Medicine used in inhalers

Answer 6

Albuterol ( Ventolin, Proventil, Volmax)

Levabuterol ( Xopenex)

Question 7

Side effect of inhaler

Answer 7

Increased heart rate and patient jitters

Question 8

Nitroglycerin

Answer 8

Drug that helps dilate the coronary vessels which supply the hear muscle with blood

• helps to relieve Chest pain of cardiac origin

Be sure to ask patient if they have taken ED medicine as it they are also cause dilation of blood vessels

Question 9

Atomizer

Answer 9

A device attached to the end of a syringe that atomizes medication (turns into very fine droplets)

Question 10

What are the 3 possible names of medication

Answer 10

Generic

And 1 or more trade (brand) names

Question 11

Indication

Answer 11

Specific signs or circumstances under which it is appropriate to administer a drug to a patient

Question 12

Contraindications

Answer 12

Specific signs or circumstances under which it is not appropriate and may be harmful to administer a drug to a patient

Question 13

Side effect

Answer 13

Any action of the drug other than the desired action

Question 14

Untoward effect

Answer 14

An effect of a medication in addition to its desired effect that may be potentially harmful to the patient. And is unexpected

Question 15

What is a suspension medication

Answer 15

A thick slurry of activated charcoal in water

Question 16

Sublingual medication is taken where?

Answer 16

Under the tongue

Ex. Sprays such as nitroglycerin

Question 17

5 rights

Answer 17

1. Do i have the right patient?
2. Is it the right time to administer this medication
3. Is this the right medication?
4. Is this the right dose?
5. Am I giving this medication by the right route of administration

Question 18

Routes of administration

Answer 18

• Oral or swallowed
• Sublingual or dissolved under the tongue
• Inhaled, breathed into the lunges
• Intranasal
• Intramuscular
• Subcutaneous or under the skin
• Intraosseous or injected into the bone marrow
• Endotracheal or sprayed directly into a tube inserted in the trachea

Question 19

Pharmacodynamics

Answer 19

The study of effects of medications on the body