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Hospital Corpsman Ch 18 Pharmacy Flashcards

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What term describes the branch of pharmacology dealing with bilogical, biochemical and echonimic features of natural medications and their constituent?

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Pharmacognosy

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What term describes the branch of pharmacology dealing with the preparation, dispensing and proper use of medications?

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Pharmacy

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What is the study of the dosages of medicines and medications?

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Posolgy

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What is the study of the action or effects of medications on living organisms?

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Pharmacodynamics

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What term describes the study of the uses of medications in the treatment of disease?

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Pharmacotherapeutics

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What term describes the study of poisons, their actions, their detection and the treatment of the conditions produed by them?

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Toxicology

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What term describes the science of treating disease by any method that will relieve pain, treat or cure disease and ifections, or prolong life?

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Therapeutics

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What text sets the standards for the quality, purity, strength, and consistency and provides standards for medications on therapeutic usefulness and pharmaceutical necessity?

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United States Pharmacopeia and National Formulary (USP-NF)

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What federal Act deisgnated the USP-NF as teh official reference for medications marketed in the United States?

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U.S. Federal Food, Medication, and Cosmetics Act

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Waht text is a comprehensive medication information reference that is organized by therapeutic medication class?

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Drug Facts and Comparisons

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What text is an easy to use reference for clinicans and healthcare providers seeking quick and concise medication information?

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Drug information handbook

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What is the most widely used text/reference in American Pharmacies?

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Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy

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13
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What text is known as the “blue bible” of pharmacology?

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Remington: The Science and Practice of Pharmacy

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14
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What term describes the amount of medication to be administered?

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Dose

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What term describes the study of dosage and the criteria that influences it?

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posology

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16
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What term describes the range between the minimum and maximum amounts of a given medication required to produce the desired effect?

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Dosage Range

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17
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What term describes the largest amount of medication that can be given without reaching the toxic effect?

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Maximum dose

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18
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What term describes the normal adult dose?

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Therapeutic dose

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19
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What term describes the least amount of medication that can prodcue death?

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Minimum lethal dose

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What are the two primary factors that determine or influence the dosage of a medication??

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Age

Weight

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21
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What is the most common factor that influences the amount of medication to be given?

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Age

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22
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What has a more direct bearing on the dose than any other factor?

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Weight

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23
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What is the rule governing calculation of pediatric doses by age?

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Young’s Rule

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24
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What is Young’s Rule?

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age in years/age in years +12 x adult = child’s dose

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25
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What is the rule governing calculating pediatric dose by weight?

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weight in lbs/150 x adult dose = child’s dose

26
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What are some “other” factors that influence dosage?

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Sex Frequency of admin
Race Mode of Amin
Occupaiton
Hapitual use
Time of adminsitration

27
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What are the advantatges of oral medications?

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Convenient
Cheaper
Do not have to be sterile or pure
Wide variety of dosage

28
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What are the disadvantages of oral medications?

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Patients may have difficult swallowing
Absorbed too slowly
Can be destroyed in digestive sytem

29
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How many times are Parenteral solutions examined before they are ultimately used?

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Three

  1. Upon receiving the solution
  2. Periodically while is storage
  3. Immediately preceding use
30
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What are the methods of Parenteral adminstration?

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Subcutaneous
Intradermal
Intramuscular
Intravenous
Inrathecal or Intraspinal
31
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What are the three types of Inhalation medication administration?

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Vaporization
Gas Inhalation
Nebulization

32
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What are the two purposes topical medications serve?

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Local effect

Systemic effect

33
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What are the “rights” of medication adminstration?

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Right patient
Right medication
Right dose
Right route
Right time
Right Documentation
34
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Whats the classification for medications that are grouped according to their source whether animal, vegatable, or minderal in orgin?

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General

35
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Whats the classification for medications that are grouped by their chemical characteristics?

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chemical

36
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What the classification for medications that are grouped according to their action on the body?

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Therapeutic (pharmacological)

37
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What type of medication “name” relates to the chemical and molecular structures?

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Chemcial name

38
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What type of medication “name” is often derived from the chemical name?

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Generic name

39
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What type of medication “name” is the proprietary name given by the manufactuer?

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Brand name (trade name)

40
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What class of medication cause shrinkage of the skin and mucous membranes?

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Astringents

41
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What is the generic name for Burrow’s solution or Domeboro?

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Aluminum acetate solution

42
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What class of medications is mainly used to stop seepage from mucous membranes?

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Astringents

43
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How is aluminum acetate usually used?

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As a wet to dry dressing for the relief of inflammatory conditions of the skin, such as athlete’s foot, poison ivy, swelling, external otitis, bruises and insect bites

44
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What is the brand name for Theobroma oil?

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cocoa butter

45
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What class of medications are bland or fatty substance that may be applied to the skin to make it more pliable and soft?

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Emollients

46
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What is a good emollient that provides a highly occlusive protective barrier?

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Petrolatum (petroleum jelly)

47
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What class of medication is known as brochomucotropic agents?

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Expectorants

48
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What medications assist in the removal of secretions or exudates from the trachea, bronchi or lungs?

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Expectorants

49
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What class of medication inhibit or suppress the act of coughing?

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Antitussives

50
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What is the generic name for Robitussin DM?

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guaifenesin and dextromethorphan

51
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What medication is synthetic non-narcotic derivative of codeine and acts as an antitussive?

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dextromethorphan

52
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What is the generic name for Robitussin AC?

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Guaifenesin and codeine phosphate

53
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What is the generic name for Actifed?

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Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride and Triprolidine hydrochloride

54
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What class of medication is triprolidine hydrochloride?

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Antihistamine

55
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What is the gerneric name for Mucinex D?

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Guaifenesin and Pseudoeephedrine

56
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What are some uses for diphenhydamine?

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acitve and prophylacit treatment of motion sickness
nightime sleep aid
Uticaria
Allergic rhinits

57
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What antihistamine is given to prevent and treat nausea, vomiting and dizziness of motion sickness and has a longer duration than benadryl?

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Meclizine

58
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What are some brand names for meclizine?

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Antivert

Bonine

59
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What antihistamine may also be used to control nausea and vomiting in connection with radiation sickness?

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Dimenhydrinate(Dramamine)

60
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What is the generic name for Dramamine?

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Dimenhydrinate

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