NHA Chapter 15

The study of what drugs do to the body

• Pharmacokinetics

• Pharmacodynamics

• Pharmacology

• Antagonist

Which is the correct order of how medications work in the body?

• ADME (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion)

• MEAD (metabolism, excretion, absorption, distribution)

• DEAM (distribution, excretion, absorption, metabolism)

• ADEM (absorption, distribution, excretion, metabolism)

The study of what the body does to drugs.

• Pharmacodynamics

• Pharmacology

• Agonist

• Pharmacokinetics

Albuterol stimulates the lungs to help patients with asthma breathe better. Albuterol is a(n) ________________________.

• antagonist

• therapeutic window

• agonist

• synergist

Inhibiting or decreasing the effect of a process; inhibitor.

• potentiate

• deactivating

• antagonist

• agonist

The optimal range where drugs are most effective.

• Therapeutic window

• Therapeutic interaction

• Therapeutic index

• Therapeutic duplication

Measure of how safe medications are. The higher the #, the safer a drug is.

• Therapeutic index

• Therapeutic window

• Investigational window

• Investigational index

The method the body uses to take medication into the bloodstream.

• Excretion

• Metabolism

• Absorption

• Distribution

Measure of how much of a drug actually gets into the blood to be distributed in the body.

• Distribution

• Pharmacokinetics

• Bioavailability

• Absorption

The order of medications that work the fastest:

• tablets and capsules, suspensions, solutions

• solutions, suspensions, tablets and capsules

• tablets and capsules, solutions, suspensions

• suspensions, solutions, tablets and capsules