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Classification
Medication classification indicates the effect of the medication on a body system, the symptoms the medication relieves, or the medication's desired effect.
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Pharmacokinetics
The study of how medications enter the body, reach their site of action, metabolize, and exit the body.
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Biotransformation
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.
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Therapeutic Effect
The expected or predictable physiological response a medication causes.
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Side Effects
Predictable and often unavoidable secondary effects prodiced at a usual therapeutic dose.
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Adverse Effects
Unintended, undesirable, and often unpredictable severe responses to medication.
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Toxic Effects
Develop after prolonged intake of a medication of when a medication accumulates in the blood because of impaired metabolism or excretion.
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Idiosyncratic reaction
A client overreacts or underreacts to a medication or has a reation different than normal.
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Allergic Reactions
Unpredicatble responses to a medication
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Medication Allergy
symptoms vary, depending on the individual and the medication
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Anaphylactic reaction
life thretening, characterized by sudden constriction of bronchiolar muscles, edema of the pharynx, and larynx, and severe wheezing and shortness of breath
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Medication Interaction
When one medication modifies the action of another medication
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Synergistic effect
the combined effect of the two medations is greater than the effect of the medications when given separetely.
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Onset
Time it takes adter a medication is administered for it to prduced a responce
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Peak
Time it takes for a medication to reach its highest effective concentration
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Trough
Minimum blood serum concentration of medication reached just before the next scheduled dose
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Duration
Time during which the medication is present in concentration great enough to produce a response
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Plateau
Blood serum consentration of a medication reached and maintained after repeated fixed doses
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