Medication Admin Definitions

Medication classification indicates the effect of the medication on a body system, the symptoms the medication relieves, or the medication's desired effect.

The study of how medications enter the body, reach their site of action, metabolize, and exit the body.

Occurs under the influcence of enzymes that detoxify, degrade, and remove biologically active chemicals. Most biotransformation occurs within the liver, although the lungs, kidneys, blood, and intestines also metabolize medications.

The expected or predictable physiological response a medication causes.

Predictable and often unavoidable secondary effects prodiced at a usual therapeutic dose.

Unintended, undesirable, and often unpredictable severe responses to medication.

Develop after prolonged intake of a medication of when a medication accumulates in the blood because of impaired metabolism or excretion.

A client overreacts or underreacts to a medication or has a reation different than normal.

Unpredicatble responses to a medication

symptoms vary, depending on the individual and the medication

life thretening, characterized by sudden constriction of bronchiolar muscles, edema of the pharynx, and larynx, and severe wheezing and shortness of breath

When one medication modifies the action of another medication

the combined effect of the two medations is greater than the effect of the medications when given separetely.

Time it takes adter a medication is administered for it to prduced a responce

Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration

Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled dose

Time during which the medication is present in concentration great enough to produce a response

Blood serum consentration of a medication reached and maintained after repeated fixed doses