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• Prescribing for infants and children - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Pharmacokinetics - ...ANSWER...✓✓ what the body does
to the drug (absorption, distribution, metabolism,
excretion)
Bioavailability - ...ANSWER...✓✓ issues important for
drugs with narrow therapeutic ranges or sustained
release mechanism
half-life - ...ANSWER...✓✓ time required for amount of
drug in body to decrease by 50%
First Pass Effect (Metabolism) - ...ANSWER...✓✓ rapidly
metabolized by liver, may have little if any desired action
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adverse drug reaction - ...ANSWER...✓✓ - any
unexpected, unintended, undesired, or excessive
response to a medication given at therapeutic dosages
(as opposed to overdose)
- infants/young children: lack of studies in that population
- elderly: decrease in renal function
- teratogen causes type ___D__ ADR (ex lisinopril)
• Guidelines for treatment and education of common
diseases - ...ANSWER...✓✓
• Stepwise approach to drug management -
...ANSWER...✓✓
Prescribing for women during their childbearing years -
...ANSWER...✓✓ • Hyperlipidemia and increased LDL in
preg. Woman drug of choice: bile acid binding resins