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Clayton’s Basic Pharmacology for Nurses 19th Edition
TEST BANK By Michelle J. Willihnganz, Samuel L.
Gurevitz

Factors that affect drug therapy - ANSWER:age, body weight, gender, metabolic rate,
illness, psychology, tolerance, dependence, cumulative effect

Most sensitive - ANSWER:Infants and very old tend to be______to the effects of
drugs

Patients who are overweight may require - ANSWER:An increase in drug dosage to
attain the same therapeutic response

Patients who are under weight compared with the general population -
ANSWER:Tend to require lower dosages for the same therapeutic response

Most Pediatric dosage are calculated - ANSWER:by milligrams for drug per kilogram
of body weight

Gender specific medicine - ANSWER:A developing science that studies differences in
the normal function of men and women and addresses how people of each gender
perceive and experience disease.

Patient with hired an average metabolic rate - ANSWER:Require larger doses or more
frequent administration

Patients with lower than average metabolic rates - ANSWER:Require lower dosage
and less frequently

Chronic smoking enhances the metabolism of some drugs thereby requiring dose to
be administered - ANSWER:more frequently for therapeutic effect

Pathologic conditions may alter the rate of - ANSWER:Absorption, distribution,
metabolism and excretion of a drug

Patients who are in shock have reduced peripheral vascular circulation and will -
ANSWER:Absorb intramuscular or subcutaneously injected drugs more slowly

Patients who are vomiting may not be able to - ANSWER:Retain a medication long
enough for dissolution and absorption

Patience with nephrotic syndrome or malnutrition may have a reduced amount of -
ANSWER:Serum proteins in the blood that are necessary for adequate distribution of
drugs

, Patience with kidney failure generally will excrete drugs at a - ANSWER:slower rate
and must have significant reductions in dosage of medication excreted by the
kidneys

Placebo effect - ANSWER:Patient's positive expectation about treatment and the
care receive can possibly if affect the outcome of therapy

nocebo effect - ANSWER:a negative placebo effect due to the expectation of adverse
consequences from receiving treatment

Placebo - ANSWER:A drug dosage form that has no pharmacologic activity Because
the dosage form has no active ingredients

Tolerance - ANSWER:Occurs when a person begins to require a higher dosage of a
medication to produce the same affect that a lower dosage ones provided

Drug dependence - ANSWER:Occurs when a person is unable to control a desire for
ingestion of drugs

Drug accumulation - ANSWER:accumulation in the body may occur if the next dose is
admin. before the previously admin. dose has been metabolized or excreted

Carcinogenicity - ANSWER:The ability of a drug to induce living cells to mutate and
become cancerous.

Factors that influence drug actions - ANSWER:absorption, distribution, metabolism,
excretion (ADME)

Factors that influence drug absorption in Age - ANSWER:Pediatric and geriatric
patient require special consideration for medication administration

neonates and older adults - ANSWER:Medicine given intramuscularly are usually
erratically absorbed in

Infants - ANSWER:Topical administration with percutaneous absorption is usually
effective for

Children or any patient with loose teeth - ANSWER:Chewable tablets should not be
giving to

Passive diffusion - ANSWER:Across the membrane by gastric emptying time depend
on the pH of the environment

Newborns and geriatric patients have - ANSWER:Reduce gastric acidity and prolong
transit time compared with adults

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