NURS 3100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Biotin, Hypokalemia, Spinach
Document Summary
Pharmacology - a science that draws on information from multiple disciplines. Like anatomy, physiology, chemistry, microbiology, and psychology. Any chemical that can affect living processes. The study of drugs and their interactions with living systems. Study of the physical and chemical properties of drugs and their biochemical and physiology effects. The use of drugs to diagnose, prevent, or treat disease or to prevent pregnancy. Effectiveness - a drug that elicits the responses for which it is given. Most important property a drug can have. Us law = drug needs to prove to be effective prior to release for marketing. Safety - a drug that cannot produce harmful effects even if administered in very high doses and for a very long time. Certain anticancer drugs always increase the risk of serious infection. Opioid analgesics at high therapeutic doses can cause potentially fatal respiratory depression. Aspirin and related drugs can cause life threatening gastric ulceration, perforation and bleeding.
