Test #3 Flashcards
What is the study of drugs?
Pharmacology
This can cause injure or even cause the death of a patient.
Medication Mistakes
What is CMS?
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid.
Drugs that are available in pharmacies and supermarkets they are purchased by patients to treat themselves for ailments ranging from arthritis to colds to stomach ulcers.
Over The Counter Drugs
A chemical compound used to prevent, diagnose, or treat a disease or any abnormal condition
Drugs
What is a specialist in Pharmacology?
Pharmacist
The study of characteristic of natural drugs and their sources.
Pharmacognosy
The study of what drugs do to the body?
Pharmacodynamics
The study of poisons of posinous effects of drugs.
Toxicology
What is the DEA?
Department of Justice’s Drug Enforcement Administration.
A drug given to a patient a prescription to be filled by a pharmacist.
Prescribe
A drug given to a patient given directly to a patient by injection, mouth or any outher route that introduces the drug into the patient’s body.
Administer
A drug that is distributed in a properly labeled container to a patient who is directed to use it.
Dispense
Drugs that come from natural products such as plants, animals, minerals, bacteria, or fungi
Natural Products
Comes from foxglove plant and is used to treat heart failure and abnormal heart beats
Digitoxin
Comes from cinchona tree bark and is used to treat malaria
Quinine
Can be used as a source of drugs
Animals
Grandular Substances such as insulin and thyroid hormones, Fats and ooils such cod-liver oil, enzymes such as pepsin, antiserums and antitoxins for vaccines
Examples of Animal Substances
Yield various substances that can be used as they occur naturally or mized with outher substances
Mineral sources
Potassium Chloride, Mineral Oil
Examples of Drugs derived from Mineral Sources.
The study of the mechanism of action, or how the drugs works to produce a therapeutic effect.
Pharamcodynamics
The interaction between the drug and target cells or tissues and the body’s response to that interaction.
Pharmacodynamics