RGT 2542 Study Guide

Used to promote elimination of urine

Most likely be used for angina

Relaxes and dilates blood vessels.

Used as a laxative

Drug that inhibits blood clotting and keeps IV lines free of clots

Can use less contrast agent than if you inject from a faraway site

Found in the "procedure" section of a prepackaged sterile tray.

Gauge of needle most commonly used in the radiography department.

Oxygen is a drug and must be prescribed by

The contraction of the heart muscle that drives the blood through the circulatory system.

The period of relaxation of the chambers of the heart during which blood enters.

A drug or chemical that has a specific affinity to certain cells and that will produce a predictable response.

A drug or chemical that will oppose or counteract the action of another drug or chemical substance by binding to a receptor site in a cell without producing a biologic response.

Abnormally high blood pressure

Abnormally low blood pressure

The branch of pharmacology concerned with the effects of drugs and the mechanism of their action.

The branch of medicine concerned with the uses, effects, and modes of action of drugs.

The study of the action of drugs in the body.

The part of the automatic nervous system that balances the action of the sympathetic nerves.

To force the flow of (blood or lymph) from a vessel out into surrounding tissue.

A radiographic method of demonstrating certain anatomic features that lack natural contrast with surrounding structures by the instillation of a substance to produce structural contrast.

Performed to identify a particular pathologic process.

Performed to treat the pathologic process.

The name used to describe its chemical makeup.

Name is derived from the chemical name somehow and is considered to be non-proprietary.

When a company trademarks a name for its specific brand of the drug.

Administered at a specific site and are injected into the tissue only in that particular area.

Produce a wide variety of effects to the patient.