Pharmacodynamics

Question 1

Study of the way drugs affect the body

Answer 1

Pharmacodynamic Phase

Question 2

It is the desirable effect

Answer 2

Primary effect of drug

Question 3

It is the undesirable effect of drugs

Answer 3

The secondary effect

Question 4

It is the relationship between minimal vs maximal amount of drug dose needed to produce desired response.

Answer 4

Dose response

Question 5

Time it takes to reach minimum effective concentration after drug is administered

Answer 5

Onset

Question 6

Drug reaches its highest blood plasma/concentration

Answer 6

Peak action

Question 7

Lenght of time the drug has a pharmacologic effect

Answer 7

Duration of the drug

Question 8

The secondary effect of a drug that is unintended.

Answer 8

Side effect

Question 9

Harmful effects of a drug results from overdosage or buildup of drug in the blood because of impaired metabolism or excretion

Answer 9

Drug toxicity

Question 10

Food slows interaction

Answer 10

Drug-diet interactions

Question 11

Occurs when the administration of one drug before, at the same time, or after another drug alters the effect of one or both drugs

Answer 11

Drug interaction

Question 12

Drugs with similar pharmacologic actions are taken to achieve the same degree of therapeutic effect.

Answer 12

Additive effect

Question 13

Occurs when two different drugs increases that action of one or another drug.

Answer 13

Synergistic effect/synergism/potentiation

Question 14

One drug w/ metabolism/elimination of a 2nd drug may result in intensified effects of the 2nd drug.

Answer 14

Interferance

Question 15

One drug from plasma protein-binding sites by a 2nd drug increases the effects of the displaced drug.

Answer 15

Displacement