Pharmacokinetics Flashcards
1
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Pharmacokinetics
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•examining single-compartment models of drugs which are injected intravenously give a series of injections
2
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Step function
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(It’s sometimes not as simple as a drug flowing into an intravenous compartment at a constant rate with a numerical value)
• if we want to administer a drug starting at a definite time, t, after the simulation begins, we use the step functions
3
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Pulse
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Used when we want to give a patient a bolus injection
4
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How to increase rate
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Increase rate at which we give the drug by decreasing the duration (I.e. taller, thinner pulse)
-> same dose; shorter time
5
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Pulse train
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*for a series of bolus injections
• has four steps
6
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repeat time
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r
Time from the beginning of the first injection to the next
7
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End time
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e
