Comprehensive Pharmacology for Nursing Practice Unit 1 Edapt

Comprehensive Pharmacology for Nursing Practice Unit 1 Edapt Unit 1 Which type of therapy is used to treat someone based on the clinical probability that the drug will work based onpatient’s symptoms only? Maintenance therapy Empiric therapy Prophylactic therapy Supplemental therapy When someone has symptoms of a condition that is treatable, but no testing or limited testing is done, this is called empiric therapy. Maintenance therapy is the treatment of a condition to prevent or slow progression. Supplemental therapy is for replacing or adding something the body doesn’t produce enough of on its own. Prophylactic therapy is a treatment used to prevent a high risk condition from occurring. Pharmacotherapeutics about treatment and the body’s response. The focus is on using information about specific drugs to decide when to treat, why to treat, how to treat, and how the body is responding to this treatment. There areseven categories of therapy used to answer the question of why to treat and how to threat Which type of therapy is a treatment used to prevent a high risk condition from occurring?Prophylactic therapy The nurse is recommending Julie take azido thymidine for prophylactic therapyto prevent HIV since it is unknown if the attacker is positive. When someone has symptoms that are suspicious of a condition that is treatable, but no testing or limited testing is done, this is called empiric treatment. Supportive treatment is used to replace or supplement something the body doesn’t produce enough of or at all. Acute treatment is used to treat something that isnewly present and can be cured. Acute therapy is used to treat diseases or conditions that occur spontaneously and can be cured or brought under control immediately. An example of acute therapy includes using an anti-viral medication likeoseltamivir (Tamiflu) to treat som