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3. What is the impact of drugs on the body 11. What is the therapeutic range?
and how they do it? • The distance between minimum
• Pharmacodynamics effective concentration and
minimum toxic concentration.
4. What is the movement of drugs that
involves the movement of a drug from 12. The nurse is preparing for an acute
the site of administration to the blood medication intervention, which route is
stream? understood to provide the most rapid
• Absorption delivery in to the circulation of blood?
• Parenteral route
5. What is the drug movement from the
blood to the interstitial spaces and from 13. Absorption, distribution, and excretion
there to the cells? may be increased by which disease?
• Distribution • Hyperthyroidism
6. What is the most important organ used 14. An unexpected effect of the drug is
for excretion? known as an
• Kidneys • Adverse effect
7. What is the movement of drugs and 15. How a medication produces its effects
metabolites out of the body? in the body is referred to as a drug's
• Excretion • Mechanism of action
8. What organ is mostly responsibly for 16. What are the molecules that activate
metabolism? receptors?
• Liver • Agonist
17. What produces their effects by 27. Why is hypertension called the silent
preventing receptor activation by killer?
endogenous regulatory molecules and • Because there are many risks
drugs? associated with hypertension with
• Antagonist very limited symptoms
18. It supplies oxygenated blood to the 28. What are the effects of hypertension
right side of the heart (what syndromes can it exasperate)?
• Right Coronary Artery • Atherosclerosis, coronary artery
disease, congestive heart failure,
diabetes, cerebrovascular events
19. It supplies blood to the left side of the (stroke), renal disease, retinal
heart disease
• Left Coronary Artery
22. Elevated
• Systolic between 120-129 31. What is essential hypertension?
and Diastolic less than 80 • Hypertension that is a result of
unknown causes
23. Stage 1
• Systolic between 130-139 32. What is the formula for arterial blood
or Diastolic between 80-89 pressure?
• Arterial Blood Pressure =
peripheral resistance x cardiac
24. Stage 2 output
• Systolic at least over 140
or Diastolic at least over 90
33. What is the relationship of peripheral
pressure and arteriole volume?
25. Hypertensive Crisis • The greater the arterial volume,
• Systolic higher than 180 and the lower the arteriole pressure -
higher over 120 thus they are inversely related
39. How is cardiac output measured? 46. What are the common drugs used for
• Heart rate X stroke volume hypertension pt with hyperlipidemia?
(HR X SV) Alternative?
• Ace inhibitors; Ca++ channel
blockers