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What is a loading dose? - correct answer ✔A large volume of medication to start
working on the problem
Side effects - correct answer ✔Side effects are secondary effects of drug therapy.
They are predictable and can range from inconvenient to severe or life threatening.
All drugs have side effects. The occurrence of side effects is one of the primary
reasons patients stop taking their prescribed medicines. Our role as nurses are to
educate patients about a drug's side effects and encouraging them to report side
effects.
Adverse effects - correct answer ✔Adverse effects are unintentional, unexpected
reactions to drug therapy that occur at normal drug dosages. May be mild to severe
and include anaphylaxis. Adverse drug reactions are always undesirable and must
be reported and documented. "but did it kill you?"
What are drugs that are more than 90% bound to protein? - correct answer ✔highly
protein bound drugs
When two Highly Protein-Bound Drugs are given together there is a concern for
____________ - correct answer ✔drug accumulation to occur and for toxicity to
result.
, If you have 2 drugs, one 97% protein bound and the other 94% protein bound, which
will likely attach to the receptor site? - correct answer ✔97% protein bound.
The higher percentage-the faster one wins the race.
Free Drug - correct answer ✔is not attached-not having an impact-just loping around
in the bloodstream-places the patient at risk for toxicity
2 highly bound protein drugs - correct answer ✔2 highly protein bound drugs-its
going to be effective-the weakly protein-bound medication is not going to attach to
a receptor-site-also puts patient at risk for toxicity.
half life - correct answer ✔the amount of time it takes for the drug to be reduced to
half
onset - correct answer ✔is the time it takes for a drug to reach the minimum effective
concentration (MEC) after administration.
peak - correct answer ✔occurs when it reaches its highest concentration in the
blood.
Duration of Action - correct answer ✔is the length of time the drug exerts a
therapeutic effect.
Why are peak and trough draw levels important? - correct answer ✔because they
are requested for drugs that have a narrow therapeutic and are considered toxic.
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