Tablet Flashcards

1
Q

Solid dosage form that contain active ingredients & excipients prepared by either molding or compression

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Tablets

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2
Q

Most common
Most Stable
Most tamper-proof
Dosage form

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Tablet

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3
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Advantages of Tablets

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Precision and Low control variability
Low Manufacturing cost
Easy to package and ship
Appropriate for special release form
Simple to identify
Essentially tamper-proof

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4
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Disadvantages of Tablets

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Good compatiblity is required
Resist compression
Requires encapsulation before compression

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5
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Tablet Types and Classes

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Tablets for oral ingestion
Tablets used in oral cavity
Tablets used to prepare solution

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6
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Tablets formed by compression and in simplest form, contain no special coating

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Conventional Compressed Tablets

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7
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Compressing additional tablet granulation on previosuly compressed granulation

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Multiple Compressed Tablets - Layered Tablet

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8
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Compressing another granulation layer/outer shell around the preformed tablet

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Multiple Compressed Tablets: Layered Tablet

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9
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Compressing another granulation layer/outer shell around the preformed tablet

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Multiple Compressed Tablets: Press coated Tablet/Dry coated tablet or Compression Coated

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10
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Use of Multiple Compressed Tablets

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Separate incompatible ingredients
Produce prolonged or repeated release profiles

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11
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Use of Multiple Compressed Tablets

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Separate incompatible ingredients
Produce prolonged or repeated release profiles

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12
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Compressed talets coated by sugar solution

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Sugar Coated Tablet

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13
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Sugar Coated Tablet

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Most elegant solid dosage form
Most difficult and time consuming to produce
50 -100% increase in size and weight

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14
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Use of Sugar Coated Tablet

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To improve appearance
Mask unpleasant taste or smell
Protect from Oxidation

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15
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Compressed tablets coated w/ a thin layer of a insoluble or soluble polymer

2 - 3% increase in weight

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Film Coated Tablets

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16
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Use of Film Coated Tablets

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Protect drug from atmospheric conditions

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17
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Compressed tablets coated with substances that resist solution in gastric fluid but disintegrate in intestine

Delayed Action tablet

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Enteric Coated Tablets

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18
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Use of Enteric Coated Tablet

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To protect the drug which are inactivated destroyed in stomach

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19
Q

Enteric coating

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Shellac
Cellulose Acetate Pthalate (CAP)

20
Q

Intended to be chewed and swallowed

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Chewable Tablets

21
Q

Diluent used in Chewable Tablets

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Mannitol

22
Q

Commonly used for multivitamin tablets and for antacids, antibiotics

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Chewable Tablets

23
Q

Useful for children and elderly who is hvaing difficulty swallowing

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Chewable Tablet

24
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Tablets are placed under the tongue and dissolved rapidly

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Sublingual Tablet

25
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Tablets designed to dissolve slowly in the mouth between the cheek and gingiva

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Buccal tablets

26
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Use of Sublingual and Buccal tablet

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Suitable for drugs that does not absorbed very well in stomach
Avoid first pass metabolism

27
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Slow dissolving tablet prepared by molding or compression to produce local/systemic effect

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Lozenges and Troches

28
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Molded Lozenge

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pastilles

29
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Lozenge + Stick

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Lollipop

30
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Compressed lozenges

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Troches

31
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Use of Lozenges and Troches

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Better patient compliance
Avoide First pass

32
Q

Tablets containing an organic acid and carbonate salt along with API, and dissolved in water

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Effervescent Tablet

33
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Effervescent tablet composition

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Tartaric Acid
Citric Acid
NaHCO3

34
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Advantages of Effervescent Tablet

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Improves palatability and faster absorption

35
Q

Tablets containing large amounts of highly potent drug substances and supplied for Extemporaneous Compounding of the pharmacist

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Dispensing tablet/Compounding Tablet

36
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Advantages of Dispensing tablet

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Can extemporaneously prepared according to requirement of patient

37
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Soft, readily soluble tablets, used by physician in preparation of parenteral solution

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Hypodermic Tablets

38
Q

Tablets prepared by molding and are very soft and disintegrate quickly

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Molded tablet/tablet Triturates

39
Q

Drug product that alter the rate or timing of drug release

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Modified Release Dosage Form

40
Q

Abrupt, uncontrolled release of a large amount of drug

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Dose dumping

41
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Types of Modified Release Dosage Forms

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a. Extended release (Controlled release, sustained release)
b. Deleayed release
c. Repeat Action
d. Targeted Release

42
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Dosage form that maintains the therapeutic blood or tissue levels of the drug for a prolonged period

Provides a prompt-desired effect followed by a gradual release of remaining amount

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Extended release

43
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Releases the drug at a constant rate and provide plasma concentrations that remain invariant with time

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Controlled-release

Follows Zero-order

44
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Releases an initial release of drug sufficient to provide a therapeutic dose after administration, then a gradual release over an extended period

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Sustained release

Follow first-order
Affected by environment

45
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Designed to release the drug at a time other than promptly after administration

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Deleayed release Dosage Forms

46
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Individual dose is released after administration, and second dose is released at intermittent intervals

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Repeat Action

1st dose - Immediate release
2nd dose - delayed release

47
Q

Drug release is direct toward isolation or concentrating a drug in a body, tissue, or site for abs or action

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Targeted-release