A technologist may administer drugs for diagnostic procedures once they have been:
Prescribed
Drugs that may be administered by a technologist after they have been prescribed include:
Medications for sedation, pain management, contrast media, and emergency drugs for reactions to contrast
In what year was venipuncture added to the ASRT's scope of practice?
1991
Failure to do something that a reasonable person of ordinary prudence would do in a certain situation:
Medical Negligence
Breach of duty to adhere to a standard of care:
Medical Malpractice
T/F Individuals with limited education and experience who practice as those with appropriate education and experience are expected to perform in the same manner as qualified personnel.
True
Who is liable if a health care facility requires employees to perform procedures beyond the employees educational expertise?
Both the facility and the employee
What is the imaging technologists primary concern when dealing with HIPAA compliance?
Patient Confidentiality
The study of drugs in living systems:
Pharmacology
A drug has many names given to it before it becomes available. These names are:
Chemical name, code number, generic name, and brand name
The shortened version of a drug name is the ____name and is the official name given to the ____ ____.
Generic, active chemical ingredient
The original drug is the ____ drug. After years of exclusive rights, other companies may produce the same drug under different ____ names.
Generic, Brand
Medications that require a prescription are called:
Legend Drugs
T/F Radiopaque contrast agents and other medications administered in the radiology department fall into the category of legend drugs.
True
A verbal order does not constitute a:
Valid prescription
A valid prescription includes at least 7 components:
1. Patient Name, room #/address, and ID # 2. Drug Name 3. Dosage 4. Dose form 5. Route of administration 6. Date 7. Signature
Medications that have a high potential for abuse:
Controlled Substances
Controlled Substances are placed into one of 5:
Controlled Substance Schedules
In the Controlled Substance Schedules, the lower the roman numeral, the:
greater the potential for abuse
In the U.S., schedule C-I drugs are:
illegal for patient use
To acquire schedule C-I drugs, a manufacturer or researcher of narcotic and dangerous drugs must be registered with the federal:
Drug Enforcement Agency
Schedule C-II drugs cause are legal for prescription and cause:
marked euphoria with mind-altering effects
Morphine and amphetamine fall into which category?
C-II
The patient chart is a legal medical record belonging to:
the hospital
What medical record format do most hospitals use?
POMR (problem-oriented medical record)
A general reference that is simply a compilation of various package inserts put out by pharmaceutical manufacturers:
Physician's Desk Reference (PDR)
Two Greek words that make up the term "pharmacology":
Pharmakon meaning drug and logia meaning study
A drug is any chemical substance that produces a:
biologic response in a living system
Drugs may be classified by:
Name, action, or method of legal purchase
A standard of care is applied to measure:
the competence of the professional
A branch of pharmacology that focuses on the methods for achieving effective drug administration:
Biopharmaceutics
Drugs are placed in a:
Vehicle
A substance compounded with the active ingredient for delivery is called:
a vehicle
The type of preparation or the manner in which the chemical agent is transported:
Dosage Form
Dosage forms include:
Solid, liquid, gas, or combination of all
Dosage form determines the:
speed or onset of therapeutic effect
Solid Dosage Forms:
Tablet, capsule, suppositories or inserts
Tablets consist of:
the drug, fillers, dyes, flavoring agents, and an outside coating
Dose form in which a powered or liquid drug is contained in a hard or soft gelatin:
Capsule
Liquid dosage forms include:
solutions, emulsions and suspensions
Parenteral dosage forms are given by:
injection
Routes for parenteral doses:
subcutaneous, intra-dermal, intra-thecal, intramuscular, intravenous, and intra-arterial
Gas dosage forms include:
Oxygen, anesthesia, and aerosol
The process of drub absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination:
Cardiac output, regional blood flow, and drug reservoirs
Organs responsible for removing metabolites:
Liver, kidneys, lungs, and intestinal mucosa
Delayed drug metabolism can cause:
Cumulative drug effect (overdose)
This technology is used to prevent the strongly acidic contents of the stomach from chemically destroying the activity of a drug:
Enteric-coated tablets
The begining of the pharmacokinetic process include:
disintegration and dissolution
Largest surface area of absorption of drugs:
Pulmonary Alveoli and GI rugae
A neutrally charged, or non-ionized particle crosses a cell membrane ____ than a charged, ionized particle.
better
The process of chemically changing a drug into a metabolite that can be exreted from the body:
Metabolism, or bio-transformation
Drugs in the liver undergo one or both of these types of chemical reactions:
Oxidation, hydrolysis, or reduction and/or conugation
Transformation of a drug from a lipid-soluble substance that can cross biologic membranes to a water-soluble substance that can be excreted through the biliary tract:
Conjugation
Why must some drugs be administered through an alternative route?
Because the liver may cause deterioration of the active drug rendering it inactive