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The study of drugs and their effect on living tissue. |
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The changes within a body caused by a drug. |
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A chemical substance used in Dx, Tx or prevention of Dz. |
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"Official" name of drug
Patent lasts 17 years
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Plants, Animals, Minerals, Synthetic and Active constituents of plants |
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Secured only by prescription |
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Formerly sold by prescription
Lower doses than prescription |
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Two formulations of a drug meet same chemical and physical standards required by FDA. |
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Ability of generic drug to reach blood levels equivalent to those reached by a brand-name drug. |
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Indication
Effect
Chemical categories |
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
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Approves safe, effective drugs/removes
Sets standard for drug purity and strength
Adverse reaction reporting program |
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Federal Trade Commission (FTC) |
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Enforces federal consumer protection laws
Regulates marketing practices & advertising on food, OTC drugs, and dietary supplements. |
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Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) |
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Identifies drugs capable of addiction
Sets requirements for prescribing abuse drugs (narcotics, barbituates, benzodiazepines) |
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Preclinical Trials
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
Postmarketing Surveillance |
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Tested on animals
3.5 years |
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Phase 1 of clinical trials |
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20-80 volunteers
1 year
Dosage Range and Safety Profile |
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Phase 2 of clinical trials |
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100-300 volunteers
2 years
Short-term drugs effectiveness
Adverse Drug Effects |
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Phase 3 of clinical trials |
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1000-3000 volunteers
3 years
Long-term effectiveness
Adverse drug effects |
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Postmarketing Surveillance |
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Determines true drug/risk benefit of new drug |
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Detailed and complete drug infomation publications
Internet sources
Dental Drug References
Drug Interaction Publications |
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Drug entered into tx record (Name, dosage, route administered)
Any drugs recommended or sample given written into record. Instructions must be given and recorded.
Potential drug effects & modifications to tx plan assessed after drug or supplement history review |
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Investigate drugs reported on health history
Information
Drug name (generic & brand)
Indication
Side effects relevant to hygiene care
Clnical implications for each drug effect
Oral health info topics related to drug effects, drug warning
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Force of attraction of a molecule to a receptor site |
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Drug that has a direct stimulatory effect on a receptor |
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Drug that interferes with the action of an agonist |
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Dose above which no further beneficial drug effect will occur |
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Administration of a drug through the gastrointestinal tract (GI), by mouth |
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Magnitude of response obtained from optimal receptor site occupancy by a drug |
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The time it takes for half the drug to be removed from the body |
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The ability to cause an effect or action |
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Administration of a drug bypassing the GI tract, usually through injection into the body in various ways but also including inhalation and topical administration. |
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Drug with affinity for the receptor site, but unable to produce a strong effect or action |
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Mechanisms of drug action involving biochemical and physiologic effects of drugs
Science of molecular interactions between drugs and body consituents |
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The absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of a drug |
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The use of pharmacologic agents to diagnose, treat, or prevent disease |
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Concentration at which the drug elicits 50% of its maximal response, related to the drug's affinity for the receptor |
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Specialized area on a cell or within a cell where a drug acts to initiate a series of biochemical and physiological effects. |
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Drug that produces a significant physiologic response when only a relatively small number of receptors are occupied. |
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Overdose, undesirable effects, or poisoning |
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Basic Pharmacology Principles |
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Mechanism of action: how a drug works
Adverse Side Effects (ADE's)
Oral health education information (related to drug effects)
Risks of taking a drug |
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- Delivery of molecule to tissue cell
- "Complex" formation with receptor (site of action)
- Molecular event causing an effect
- Mechanism of action (how it works)
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Characteristics of Drug Receptors |
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- Cellular macromolecules
- Location on cell surface or within a cell
- Hundreds of different receptors on a single cell
- Complimentary fit between drug and receptor
- Electrochemical charge (+, -, ionized, polarized)
- Hydrophilic or hydrophobic
- Only one drug molecule can occupy a receptor at one time
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- constant random motion
- binding then releasing the bond
- then binding again according to the:
- affinity of the molecule and
- competition from other drug molecules |
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Bond often irreversible (strongest)
Dental ex: tetracycline & dentin |
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Contribute to mutual attraction between molecules |
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The most common bonds between drugs and receptors |
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When a drug molecule moves so close to its receptor that the attractive force between them becomes great enough to overcome the random motion of the drug molecule, the drug binds to the receptor. This is called? |
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Good affinity is directly related to greater ___? |
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Weak agonists must bind to _____ to produce the same effect as a strong agonist. |
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The lowest dose of a drug that will produce a measurable response. |
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Potency is related to the ____ of a drug to its _____. |
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Interfere with the action of agonists, but have no effect in absence of agonists. |
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Antagonists can be classified as: |
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Receptor antagonists that prevent binding of agonist by binding at the active site
Nonreceptor antagonists |
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Competitive antagonists - affinity but no intrinisic activity. Reduces potency of agonist
Noncompetitive antagonists - prevent receptor activation |
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Chemical antagonists (local anesthetics)
Physiological antagonists (vasoconstriction by epi vs. vasodilation) |
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Have both agonistic and antagonistic properties
When used alone they act as agonists
When another drug competes, it antagonizes |
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Receptors are classified according to: |
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Type of drug they interact with
The specific physiologic response produced by the drug-receptor complex |
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Receptors are subclassified by |
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The effects of agonist in presence of antagonist |
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Adverse effects of toxicity |
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- Exaggeration of direct effects at higher dosages
- Multiple concurrent adverse effects at therapeutic dosage level |
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Dose required to produce desired response in 50% of individuals
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Dose that produces death in 50% of individuals
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Dose that produces a specific toxic response in 50% of individuals
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A steep dose-response curve indicates ? |
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A margin of safety of a drug is expressed by |
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The Therapeutic Index (TI) |
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Therapeutic Index is determined by ? |
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Ratio of LD50 and ED50 (LD50/ED50)
The higher the numeric value, the safer the drug. |
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Pharmacokinetics relates to: |
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- Drug absorption
- Distribution in the body
- Distribution to the site of action
- Metabolism of drug
- Excretion of drug |
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Properties that influence the movement of drug molecules across biologic membranes |
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- Molecular size
- Lipid solubility (nonionized able to pass easily)
- Degree of ionization (depends on pH at site)
- Ionized must pass through via pores |
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Small, water-soluble substance may pass through aqueous channels or water pores in cell membranes. |
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Lipid-soluble, non-ionized cross membranes along a concentration gradient (from high to low concentration) until equilibrium is reached.
Can easily pass through. |
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Foms a complex with a component of the cell membrane on one side. Then carried through the membrane and released.
Large, water-soluble drug molecules. |
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Movement against both a concentration and an electrochemical gradient.
Requires energy. |
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Factors influencing the rate of absorption |
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- Degree of ionization and pH of tissues
- Formulation of the drug (liquid or solid form)
- Drug concentration
- Degree of blood circulation to the area
- Area of absorptive surface
- Route of drug administration (enteral or parenteral)
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Ionized forms of drugs are more _____ soluble. |
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Non-ionized drugs are more _____ soluble. |
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Biologic membranes are composed of: |
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- Layers of lipid material and proteins = allow passage of lipid-soluble molecules
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Nonpolar, non-ionized drugs will pass across the membranes ______. |
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Meals ______ the rate of absorption. |
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Liquids absorb at a ______ rate than solids. |
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- Delay dissolution of drug
- Dissolves in upper intestine
- Reduces adverse gastric side effects |
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Greater concentration of drug absorbs _____ than lower. |
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The greater the blood flow to tissue, the _____ the rate of aborption. |
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Organs with significant blood flow include the: |
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Heart, GI tract and liver |
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What is the site of absorption for most oral drugs? |
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What type of drug administration is the safest yet most unpredictable? |
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May reduce the concentration of drug molecules because the molecules attach to plasma proteins (albumin). Albumin carries the molecule in circulation to be distributed to site of action. It is protected from metabolism as it moves the the liver. Has a lower bioavailability. |
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What route of administration is the most predictible, causes an immediate effect, used in emergencies and less safe than oral? |
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- sublingual
- transdermal patches
- drops in eyes or ears
- placed in gingival sulcus |
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Distribution of drugs is achieved primarily through the _______ system. |
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Redistribution may affect ? |
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The duration of the drug effect |
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Plasma protein binding tends to reduce the availability of drugs for diffusion into target organs because |
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only the free or unbound drug is capable of crossing biologic membranes. |
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Distribution of drugs to the CNS and cerebrospinal fluid is restricted due to the |
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Drugs pass across the placenta by simple diffusion. This is the reason for restriction of drugs, except prenatals, during pregnancy. |
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The majority of metabolism occurs in the ? |
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Can alter drugs in 4 ways |
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4 ways drugs are altered in biotransformation |
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- Convert active drug into inactive drug
- Convert active drug to an active drug or toxic metabolite
- Convert inactive drug into an active drug
- Convert an unexcretable (more lipophilic) drug into an excretable (more hydrophilic) metabolite
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Chemical structure is modified through oxidation, reduction or hydrolysis.
Require very little energy. |
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Chemical structure modified by conjugation to large polar endogenous molecule.
Makes a pharmacologically inactive drug. |
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Induced to increase metabolism
Inhibited to reduce rate of metabolism
Responsible for many adverse drug reactions
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The most common and important mechanism of drug elimination from the body |
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Enterohepatic recirculation |
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Metabolites that are hydrolized and reabsorbed from the gut, the drug action can be re-established. This can delay the elimination of drugs from the body.
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Exhalation, perspiration and lactation |
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The glomerulus is the primary location for drug elimination to occur.
Active tubular secretion
Passive tubular reabsorption |
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First order kinetics
(Half-life of drug) |
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Implies that a constant fraction (%) of the drug is eliminated per unit of time. |
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There are approximately how many half-lives to elminate drugs? |
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Steady-state concentration |
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Rate drug administered = Rate drug elimination |
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Constant amount of the drug is eliminated per unit time. |
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- Entered orally
- Absorbed in upper intestine
- Circulated in blood system
- Metabolized in liver
- Excreted through kidney glomerulus
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A legal document for which the prescriber and pharmacist are both responsible. |
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Prescriptions are regulated by ? |
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Errors in prescribing can occur from a varaiety of reasons such as: |
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- Wrong dosage
- Medical condition contraidcation
- Poor handwriting
- Incorrect drug information
- Look-alike drug names
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Rules for Prescription Writing |
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- Legible, accurate, complete info and in ink
- Schedule II must be in ink, indelible pencil or typewritten
- Avoid product endorsement
- Keep pads in secure location
- Place duplicate or record of Rx in patients record
- Use English instructions |
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Prescriber - Patient Relationship |
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- Patient record is established
- Dx is established: Medical history, exam, radiographs, tests
- Tx plan is prepared and need for medications determined
- Tx plan is presented and patient is counseled
- Follow-up care is provided as needed
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Parts of the Prescription |
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Heading: Dr. name, address, phone number
Patient information
Body: Drug, dose and amt. to be dispensed
Directions for patient
Closing: Signature, DEA #, generic ok, refills
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Prescription Labeling Regulations |
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- Name of drug
- Number of doseforms dispensed
- Strength of doseforms
- Pharmacy name, address, phone #, date filled
- Instructions on refills
- Refill prescription |
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One who follows the therapeutic regimen recommended by the clinician. |
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Determinants of Compliance |
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- Patient trust in clinician and treatment
- Good communication
- Positive office visit and attitude
- Individualization of regimens
- Good follow-up
- Other: child? |
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Major factor influencing compliance |
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The patient's perception of the severity of the illness. |
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How to counsel the patient on a prescription |
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- Reason for the drug
- Problems if drug is not taken
- Clear instructions
- Possible side effects
- When to notify the dentist |
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child's age (in y) x adult dose
Child's dose (1-12 yrs) = ---------------------------------------
child's age (in y) + 12 |
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weight of child (in lb) x adult dose
Child's Dose = ----------------------------------------
150 lb |
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surface area of child (in sq. meters) x adult dose
Child's dose = ----------------------------------------------------
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Most accurate rule for child dosage |
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Controlled Substances Act of 1970 |
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Collects and conforms most of the diverse laws into one piece of legislation.
Designed to improve administration and regulation of manufacturing, distributing and dispensing of controlled drugs, and provide a "closed" system for the legitimate handlers of controlled substances. |
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Every practitioner who administers, prescribes or dispenses controlled substances must be registered with the ______. |
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If a clinician has more than one office from which he/she prescribes drugs they need to be registered for each location.
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Examples of Schedule I drugs |
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- Hallucinogens
- Marijuana
- Selected opiates (heroin, opion derivatives) |
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Examples of Schedule II Drugs |
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- Amphetamines
- Selected opiates (morphine, codeine congeners,
methadone)
- Some barbiturates (secobarbital)
- Oxycodone |
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Examples of Schedule III Drugs |
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- Anabolic steroids
- Selected opiate combinations (acetaminophen w/ codeine, hydrocodone mixtures [vicodin]) |
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Examples of Schedule IV Drugs |
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- Benzodiazepines
- Selected opiates (propoxyphene [Darvon])
- Some barbiturates (phenobarbital) |
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Examples of Schedule V Drugs |
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- Selected opiates (cough & diarrhea preparation) |
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