NUR 2474 Pharmacology
- Enternal
Answer referring to a route of medication administration that uses the gastroin- testinal tract, such as swallowing a pill
- Parenteral
Answer outside of intestines or alimentary canal; popularly used to refer to injection routes
- Topical
Answer applied to the surface of the skin and seems into the epidermis
- trasndermal
Answer Crossing through the skin down into the bloodstream
- Pharmacokinetics
Answer the study of drug movement throughout the body Phases are
Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Elimination.
- Absorption
Answer The process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system into the blood
- half-life 1 / 2
Answer The amount of time for half of the drug to be metabolized away.
- Distribution
Answer It is the transfer of a drug from one location to another within the body. Once a drug enters into systemic circulation by absorption or direct administration, it must be distributed into interstitial and intracellular fluids.
- Metabolism
Answer Drug metabolism is the metabolic breakdown of drugs by living organisms, usually through specialized enzymatic systems.
- Excretion
Answer Process by which metabolic wastes (drugs and drug waste products, too) are eliminated from the body
- onset
Answer The time elapsed from the administration of the drug to the start of its effects. The amount of time it takes between the drug being administered and the drug having a beginning therapeutic effect.
- peak level
Answer The maximum concentration of a drug in the body after admin- istration can be measured in a blood sample or calculated for therapeutic drug monitoring.
- Duration of action
- / 2
Answer The length of time the concentration of a drug in the blood or tissues is sufficient to elicit a response. The length of time a drug will be at or above the therapeutic level.