Emergency Pharmacology
Terms
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- Medications
- Drug or other substance that is used as a remedy for illness. They have specific physiological effects on cells, organs, and body systems
- Pharmacology
- Study of Drugs and their actions in the body.
- Drug
- Any substance taken to treat or prevent disease or condition
- Pharmacokinetics
- Study of how the body handles a drug over a period of time.
- Pharmacodynamics
- Mechanism of Drug action on living tissue.
- Indication
- Medical condition that would warrent medication.
- Contraindiction
- Medical/ Physiological conditions present that would make it harmful to administer drugs.
- Absorption
- Movement of drug molecules from site of entry to circulation.
- Mechanism of Action
- What does it do?
- Agonist
- Completes an action
- Antagonist
- Blocks on Action
- Therapeutic Action
- Intended Effect of the Drug
- Cumulative Action
- Subsequent action of the drug
- Synergism
- Combined effect of two drugs are stronger than one drug alone
- Potentiation
- Additive effect (Alcohol with Depressants)
- Hypersensitivity
- Allergic reaction to a drug
- Idiosyncrasy
- Individual, unpredicted effect of a drug
- Untoward Effect
- Harmful Side Effect
- Side Effect
- Undesired effect from a drug
- Biotransformation
- Turning the drug into another form
- Depressant
- Depresses body functions
- Stimulant
- Increases body functions
- Refractory
- Drug does not work (Resistance)
- Habituation
- Develop a habit, or need the drug to function
- Tolerance
- Body becomes use to the drug
- Bolus
- Single dose of the drug as fast as you can
- Infusion
- Contolled administration of a drug