Drug Action Across the Life Span Speed Test/ Complete 110 Actual
Exam Questions with 100% Correct Verified Answers/ Graded A+
1. tend to be the most sensitive to the effects infants and the very old
of drugs
2. there are important differences with re- in premature neonates,
gard to the absorption, distribution, me- full-term newborns, and chil-
tabolism, and excretion of drugs dren
3. may require and increase in dosage to overweight patients
attain the same therapeutic response as
the general population
4. tend to require lower dosages for the underweight patients
same therapeutic response as the general
population
5. it is extremely important to obtain ac- heights and weights
curate ________________________ of pa-
tients, because the dosage of medicine
may be calculated with the use of these
parameters
6. most pediatric dosages are calculated by milligrams of drug per kilogram
_______________ of body weight to ad- (mg/kg)
just for growth rate
7. is a developing science that studies dif- gender-specific medicine
ferences in the normal function of men
and woman and addresses how people
of each gender perceive and experience
disease
8. patients with a _______________ meta- higher-than-average
bolic rate tend to metabolize drugs more
rapidly, thus requiring larger doses or
more frequent administration
9. patients with a _______________ meta- lower-than-average
bolic rate tend to metabolize drugs more
slowly, thus requiring smaller doses or
less frequent administration
, Drug Action Across the Life Span Speed Test
10. enhances the metabolism of some drugs. chronic smokers
example: theophylline; thereby requiring
larger doses to be administered more fre-
quently for a therapeutic effect
11. conditions may alter the rate of absorp- pathologic
tion, distribution, metabolism, and excre-
tion
12. have reduced peripheral vascular circu- patients who are in shock
lation and will absorb intramuscularly
or subcutaneously injected drugs more
slowly
13. may not be able to retain a medication in patients who are vomiting
the stomach long enough for dissolution
and absorption
14. may have reduced amounts of serum pro- patients with disease such as
teins in the blood that are necessary for nephrotic syndrome or malnu-
adequate distribution of drugs trition
15. must have significant reductions in the patients with kidney failure
dosages of medications that are excreted
by the kidneys
16. play a major role in a patient's response attitudes and expectations
to therapy and in his or her willingness to
take the medication as prescribed
17. a patient's positive expectations about a placebo effect
treatment and the care received can pos-
itively affect the outcome of therapy; this
is a phenomenon known as __________
18. negative expectations about therapy nocebo effect
and the care received can have a
____________
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