NAPSRX- Chapter 4 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions (Graded A+)
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NAPSRX- Chapter 4 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions (Graded A+)
Biology, Physiology, Clinical Pharmacology - Answers 3 areas a rep must have a solid understanding of in order to sell effectively
Anatomy - Answers Study of the basic structures of the body
Physiology - Answers Study of HOW ba...
NAPSRX- Chapter 4 Exam Questions with Verified Solutions (Graded A+)
Biology, Physiology, Clinical Pharmacology - Answers 3 areas a rep must have a solid understanding of in
order to sell effectively
Anatomy - Answers Study of the basic structures of the body
Physiology - Answers Study of HOW basic body structures function
Clinical Pharmacology - Answers Study of the effects and movement of drugs in the body
over 3 billion - Answers # of prescriptions Dispensed each year in the US
How pharmacology began - Answers Humans used plants to relieve symptoms of disease
early 1800's - Answers When was pharmacology thought to have begun
John Jacob Abel - Answers Father of modern Pharmacology
focus on the patient and improve quality of life - Answers Is the main focus of pharmacology
Pharmacodynamics - Answers the study of what a drug does to the body
Describes the therapeutic effects
Pharmacokinetics - Answers the study of how a drug is processed by the body
how the body effects the drug
Drug (US Law) - Answers any substance (other than food) intended to affect the structure or function of
the body
-Any chemical substance that affects the body and its processes
Drug (broad) - Answers Any substance that produces a physical or psychological change in the body
The FDA - Answers Decides which drugs are prescription and which are OTC
20 years - Answers How long a patent grants a company exclusive rights to a drug
10 years - Answers The amount of time that lapses from when a drug is discovered to when it is
approved for human use
Areas a patent covers for a drug - Answers the drug itself
The way the drug is made
The way a drug is to be used
method of delivering the drug
, Name, size, shape and color - Answers Legally, the ways a generic drug must vary from its trade name
counterpart
20% - Answers The legal amount a drug can vary in bioequivalence from its trade
3-4% - Answers The amount a generic usually varies in bioequivalence
Preclinical testing - Answers Gathers info about how a drug works, how effective it is and what toxic
effects it causes
5 of 4,000 - Answers The number of drugs that are actually studied in people
1 of 5 - Answers Drugs studied in people that are approved by FDA
Safety and efficacy - Answers 2 main goals of drug development
Margin of safety - Answers the difference between the usual effective dose and the dose that induces
severe side effects
3 - Answers # of names each drug has
trade name
chemical name
generic name - Answers 3 types of names each drug has
United States Adopted Name Council (USANC) - Answers Assigns the generic name for a drug
Chemical name - Answers the name that describes the atomic and molecular structure of the drug
By therapeutic group - Answers Broadly, how drugs are classified
Federal Food & Drug Consumer Act - Answers FFDCA
Drug (FFDCA) - Answers Any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment or
prevention of disease
-A substance other than food intended to affect the function of the body
Drugs, Biologics, Alternative medicine - Answers 3 general categories that substances applied for
therapeutic purposes fall in to
Therapeutic - Answers A desired drug response
Adverse - Answers Undesired drug response
Medication - Answers What a drug is called after it is administered
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