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Pharmacokinetics And Drug Formulations Flashcards

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What’s Pharmacodynamics (PD)?

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Refers to effects of drugs on patients body (MOA)

Also used to explain effect of drug on organism eg bacterioSTATIC or bactericidal

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Types of drug admin sites?

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Intravascular admin

Extravascular admin

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What’s Intravascular admin?

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Where drug is placed directly into the blood either intravenously or intra-arterially

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What’s extravascular admin?

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Oral, sublingual, buccal, IM, SC, dermal, pulmonary, topical ocular, intraocular and rectal

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Is there drug absorption when drug is admin intravascular admin?

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No! (Drug is placed directly into systemic circulation)

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What’s dissolution?

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Oral dosage form dissolving in GI tract and drug is released from the dosage form

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Why’s protective coating used in some drugs?

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To limit drug degradation, which occurs primarily by hydrolysis

By preventing drug dissolution in acidic gut medium, but permits dissolution in basic medium of intestine

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How is dissolution rate increased in drug with poor absorption?

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To reduce particle diameter, which increases the surface area

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What describes rate of dissolution?

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Noyes-Whitney eqn

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What determines rate and extent to which drug dissolves in GI fluid?

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Solubility of drug

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T/F? Only dissolved drug is absorbed into the body?

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T

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How does systemic absorption occur?

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Passive diffusion - across gut wall

Active transport - via transport proteins

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When does passive diffusion occur?

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When there’s a high conc of drug in gut lumen and it moves to equalize drug conc (reach equilibrium) across the gut wall

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Whats bioavailability?

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Extent to which a drug is absorbed into systemic circulation

% of drug absorbed from extravascular admin RELATIVE TO intravascular admin

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Howz bioavailability calculated?

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Using Area under the plasma conc time curve (AUC)

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How do u calculate absolute bioavailability (F)?

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F (%) = 100 x (AUCextravascular/AUCiv) x (DOSEiv/DOSEextravascu)

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What properties determine how drugs distribute evenly throughout the body?

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Lipophilicity

Molecular weight

Solubility

Ionization status

Extent of protein binding

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What’s the primary protein in the body?

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Albumin

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What’s the vol of distribution (V or Vd)?

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How large an area in the pts body the drug has distributed into & is based on properties of that drug

Amt of drug in the body to conc of drug measured in plasma or serum

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Formula of Vd?

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Vd = amt of drug in body/ conc of drug in plasma

Conc of drug in body = amt of drug remaining in body x vol parameter

21
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Vd formula in bolus IV injection?

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Vd = dose/Co

22
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Vd formula following oral dose?

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Vd = (F x Dose)/(Kel x AUC)

F = bioavailability
Kel = terminal elimination rate constant
AUC = area under plasma conc-time curve
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What’s clearance?

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PK parameter that converts a conc of drug in the body to an amount eliminated per unit time

Rate of elimination = Cl x Conc

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What’s half-life?

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Time req for drug conc (and drug amt) to decrease by 50%

25
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Half-life formula?

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t1/2 = 0.693/Kel

Kel = Cl/Vd

26
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What’s steady state?

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When drug accumulates until it reaches steady state where the rate of drug up intake equals the rate of drug elimination

27
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Apparent clearance formula?

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CL/F = dose/AUC

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What’s first-order kinetics?

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Amt of drug given is proportional to the increase seen in plasma conc

29
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What’s Michaelis-Menten kinetics?

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Begins as first-order, but when metabolism becomes saturated, the conc increases rapidly.

Drugs with this type of kinetics begin as first-order kinetics, but can change to zero order once a certain dose is reached and metabolizing enzymes are saturated

30
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What’s zero order elimination?

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The elimination rate is independent of the drugs conc

Toxicity can occur here e.g. PHT, theophylline and Voriconazole

31
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In saturable kinetics, whats the effect of a small dose on drug conc?

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A small increase in dose may result in a large increase in drug conc

32
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Should long-acting formulations be ground up, if pt has difficulty swallowing?

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No!

33
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Whats a way to mitigate nausea from meds?

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It may be easier to tolerate if it comes as dissolving form

Many drugs that cause stomach come in long-acting formulations

34
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Do patches bypass oral route?

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Yes

35
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Sublingual (SL) formulations bypass the oral route?

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T

Works faster

36
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Advantages of long-action formulations?

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SE occur less readily as less drug is available to interact with wrong receptor

37
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What name or -ending indicated controlled release (other than abbreviations XR, ER, LA, SR, CR, CRT, SA, TR, TD)?

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-cont

E.g. For controlled release opioids - ms CONTin or oxyCONTin

38
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Do u usually cut patches? Exceptions?

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No!

Lidoderm is only patch that can be cut

39
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Should patch be exposed to heat (from fever or electric blanket or heating pad)?

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No!

This causes more drugs to be released and could result in toxicity

40
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What can be done about patch irritating skin?

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Is pt alternating application site

No shaving immediately b4 application

Topical steroid eg Hydrocortisone (OTC) can be applied to skin AFTERWARDS

41
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Which patches need to be removed b4 MRI?

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Testosterone (Androderm)

Clonidine (Catapress-TTS)

Fentanyl (Duragesic, generics)

Rotigotine (Neurpro)

Scopolamine (Transderm Scop)

Salon Pas Power (OTC)

Nicotine (NicoDerm CQ)

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What’s pharmacokinetics?PK

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Study of time course of drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion

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