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Pharmacokinetics involves - correct answer...✔✔absorption, distribution, metabolism
and elimination).
Absorption: - correct answer...✔✔absorption from the administration site either directly
or indirectly into the blood/plasma.
Distribution: - correct answer...✔✔reversibly or irreversibly move from the bloodstream
into the interstitial and intracellular
Metabolism: - correct answer...✔✔biotransformed via hepatic metabolism or by other
tissues.
Elimination: - correct answer...✔✔tissues. lastly, the drug and its metabolites are
eliminated from the body.
route of administration with the highest bioavailability - correct answer...✔✔
intravenous; putting entire dose into a patient's vein and bypassing absorption.
avoids first-pass metabolism - correct answer...✔✔Intravenous route
administration has variable and erratic absorption. n - correct answer...✔✔Rectal
administration
4. Steady state (SS) - correct answer...✔✔absorption. n is usually reached within 4-5
half-lives of drug.
Half-life of a drug is - correct answer...✔✔how long it takes for half the drug to be
excreted from the body. Determines how frequently the drug must be administered.
Predicts how long toxic effects can last.is constant with first-order pharmacokinetics of a
drug.
Zero-order (nonlinear) pharmacokinetics - correct answer...✔✔means a drug is
metabolized at a constant rate per unit time.
CYP3A4 substrate drugs - correct answer...✔✔may have enhanced activity if any
CYP3A4 inducer drugs are used along with it.
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,Drug development process involves these steps according to the FDA: - correct
answer...✔✔Discovery: laboratory research to develop the new drug. Preclinical
research with animal testing for safety (Phase I). Clinical research on human subjects
for medication safety (Phase II). Clinical research in humans comparing the new drug to
accepted medications placebo depending on the study (Phase III). FDA review of the
results to determine approval. Post marketing study to identify adverse effects not found
in earlier clinical studies (Phase IV)
2. Medication safety organizations - correct answer...✔✔The Institute for Safe
Medication Practices (ISMP) The Institute of Medicine (IOM) The Joint Commission The
National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC
MERP) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Safe Use Initiative
Two basic type of ADRS: - correct answer...✔✔pharmacological and idiosyncratic.
85% to 90% of ADRS - correct answer...✔✔are pharmacological.
Adverse drug reactions are usually preventable, - correct answer...✔✔frequently occur
in a hospital or nursing home setting, and include medication errors, adverse drug
effects, and allergic idiosyncratic type reactions.
ADRS are not commonly reported; - correct answer...✔✔the FDA does not mandate
that ADRS be reported.
Polypharmacy - correct answer...✔✔involves using multiple health care providers for
care, using multiple medications, and using several pharmacies prescription filling.
Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIS): - correct answer...✔✔lisinopril,
captopril, enalapril, ramipril, benazepril, fosinopril.
ACEIS reduce blood pressure enzyme. - correct answer...✔✔by suppressing the
release of angiotensin-converting enzyme.
Important side effects of ACE inhibitors - correct answer...✔✔Important include cough
and angioedema; discontinue the ACEI if angioedema occurs.
Angiotensin II receptor blocking agents (ARBS): - correct answer...✔✔Icandesartan
(Atacand), eprosartan (Teveten), irbesartan (Avapro), losartan (Cozaar), telmisartan
(Micardis) and valsartan (Diovan).
ARBS reduce blood pressure - correct answer...✔✔by blocking angiotensin II
receptors.
Essential (primary) hypertension - correct answer...✔✔Essential (primary) accounts for
90% of cases; secondary hypertension may caused by chronic renal failure.
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, Nitroglycerin - correct answer...✔✔Nitroglycerin is a nitrate drug that can be
administered IV, SL, a topical ointment and as a transdermal patch.
Nitrates are contraindicated - correct answer...✔✔with PDE-5 inhibitors (e.g., sildenafil
and vardenafil)
Amiodarone is the antiarrhythmic - correct answer...✔✔Of choice when there is
coexisting heart failure; can cause thyroid and pulmonary toxicity.
Alpha-1 adrenergic stimulation - correct answer...✔✔results in vasoconstriction and
increased blood pressure.
Alpha-1 adrenergic blockade - correct answer...✔✔results in vasodilation and reduced
blood pressure.
Beta-1 adrenergic stimulation - correct answer...✔✔by beta agonists (e.g.,
isoproterenol) results in increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, and increased
cardiac output.
Beta-1 adrenergic blockade results - correct answer...✔✔in reduced heart rate,
reduced blood pressure, and reduced cardiac output.
Left heart failure - correct answer...✔✔causes reduced delivery of oxygenated blood to
the body tissues.
Right heart failure - correct answer...✔✔is associated with pulmonary disease and
increased pulmonary vascular resistance.
drug that relieves heart failure symptoms but does not reduce mortality - correct
answer...✔✔furosemide.
Loop diuretics like furosemide - correct answer...✔✔are potent diuretics, can cause
diuretic resistance and hypokalemia, and work on receptors in the thick ascending renal
loop of Henle.
Loop diuretics inhibit - correct answer...✔✔reabsorption of sodium and chloride at this
site in the kidney.
Potassium-sparing diuretics: - correct answer...✔✔spironolactone, triamterene.
Milrinone - correct answer...✔✔phosphodiesterase inhibitor used for acute heart
failure.
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