Egan's Chapter 35 Work Book

Egan's Chapter 35 Work Book indication - reason for giving a drug to a patient tolerance - increasing dose needed for effect adrenergic - drugs that mimic the effect of epinephrine vasopressor - drug that exerts a constricting effect on blood vessels prodrug - given in an inactive form that converts to active in the body muscarinic - effect of acetylcholine on smooth muscle pharmacodynamic - phase related to mechanism of action side effect - undesired effect of a drug absolute contraindication - drug may not be given for any reason leukotriene - compounds that produce allergic or inflammatory responses mydriasis - dilation of the pupil of the eye agonist - has receptor affinity and exerts an effect pharmacokinetic - phase related to metabolism of a drug cholinergic - mimics the effect of acetylcholine antagonist - has receptor affinity but produces no effect tachyphylaxis - rapidly developing tolerance onset - time it takes a drug to start working peak effect - maximum effect from a drug dose