Exam 2 Flashcards
What drug is the leading cause of preventable illness and death?
Tobacco
Which of the following are more likely to use tobacco?
What are the other three that are not listed?
A) Unemployed
B) College Grad
C) Uneducated (no high school diploma)
D) B and A
E) A and C
E) A and C
-Unemployed, Uneducated, Uninsured, Poor, Men
Which of the following drugs are the number one psychoactive drugs?
A) Alcohol
B) Acid
C) Opioids
D) Tobacco
A) Alcohol
T/F Alcohol is the number one drug responsible for rapes.
True
Which of the following has a higher incidence of drinking alcohol?
A) Higher educated Person
B) Blacks
C) High school graduate only
D) Native American
A) Higher Educated person
the more education corresponded with more alcohol use.
What is considered drug abuse? ( 3 definitions)
1) Using a drug for something else other than the medical effects.
2) Under age drinking, smoking.
3) Use of a legal drug to point of hazardous effects.
The dose that is required to keep blood levels high enough in order to maintain the effect of the drug is known as what?
A) Maximum dose
B) Therapeutic dose
C) Maintenance dose
D) Loading dose
C) Maintenance dose
The dose that is customarily used to get a desired effect is known as what?
A) Low dose
B) Maintenance dose
C) Therapeutic dose
D) Loading dose
C) Therapeutic dose
What drugs teratogenic effect causes facial, cartilage, and CNS defects?
A) Carbamazepine(tegretol)
B) Synthetic Estrogen
C) Warfarin (Coumadin)
D) Depakote
C) Warfarin (Coumadin)
What drug may cause craniofacial and fingernail deformities?
A) Carbamazepine (tegretol)
B) Synthetic Estrogen
C) Warfarin (Coumadin)
D) Lithium
A) Carbamazepine (tegretol)
What is the teratogenic effect of taking phenytoin (Dilantin)?
A) Craniofacial deformity B) CNS defects C) Growth Retardation D) Cardiac defects E) A and C F) B and C
E) A (craniofacial defect and C (Growth retardation)
What does idiosyncrasy mean?
Unusual, unique or unexpected response from a drug due to altered metabolism.
What does paradoxical mean?
Opposite effect than what was expected.
Name the 3 most common organs effected by direct toxicity.
1) Live
2) Kidney
3) Lungs
With a blood test which of the following would you expect to be elevated?
A) Aspartate Transaminase (AST) B) Alanine Transaminase (ALT) C) Bilirubin D) Albumin E) A,B,C F) A,C,D
E) A, B, C (AST, ALT, Bili)
What would you detect in the blood of a person with kidney damage?
Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN)
Creatinine
T/F To detect lung damage there is a biochemical test that can be used.
False
FEV is the only way.
What phase does teratogenesis have the highest risk of occurring?
Organogenesis phase (18-55 days)
what type of -genesis interacts with the DNA and can add, delete, or substitute bases?
A) Muta
B) Clasto
C) Aneu
A) Mutagenesis
What does clastogenesis mean?
Chromosomal damage
What does aneugenesis mean?
Acquisition or loss of an entire chromosome.
What are the 3 unrestrained cell replication in carcinogenesis?
1) Initiation
2) Promotion
3) Progression
Initiation for carcinogenesis is when ___ occurs.
DNA mutation
Explain what promotion means in carcinogenesis?
Altered gene expression and regulation.
Progression is described as what?
When another mutation leads to proliferation of initiated cells.
What is the pharmaceutic phase?
Disintegration and dissolution of the dosage form.
What is the pharmacokinetic phase?
What the body does with the drug.
ADME stands for what in the pharmacokinetic phase?
A- Absorption
D- Distribution
M- Metabolism
E- Excretion
What type of absorption is the most common way drugs get absorbed?
Passive diffusion
If your patient needs to excrete acidic drugs what would you give them? why?
Sodium bicarbonate
To make their urine alkaline