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This is an outline of the basics of Pharmacology. A discussion of how drugs are named, classified and its effects on the person's biochemical processes. It also included the factors influencing drug action and potential drug interactions. At the end, some commonly ysed terminologies were defined.
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Introduction to Pharmacology Course
Ms. Maria Jose Baňaga Villafuerte
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Objectives
• Define the common terms related to Pharmacology. • Explain how drugs are named.• Explain the concepts of drugs in terms of pharmacokinetics,
pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics. • Identify the common drug interactions. • Identify the common patient variables affecting drug action. • List the various routes of administration and the role of
nurses in drug administration.
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Definition of Pharmacology
• is the study of drugs and its origin, chemical structure, preparation, administration, action, metabolism and excretion.
• The study of drugs that alter functions of living organisms.
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Implication of Pharmacology to Nursing
– Responsible for drug administration
– Responsible for the administration of medications that they direct others to give.
– Ethical and legal responsibilities
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Basic Concepts of Pharmacology
• Drugs– are chemicals that
alter physiochemical processes in body cells.
– They can stimulate or inhibit normal cellular functions.
– Used interchangeably with medicines.
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Drug Names
1. Generic or Nonproprietary Name: name approved by the Medical or Pharmaceutical Associations in the original country of manufacture and is adopted by all countries.
e.g. Paracetamol 2. Brand name or trade name: name given by the manufacturer of the drug
e.g. Adol or Panadol 3. Chemical name
name that describes the atomic or chemical strucuture
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Drug Names
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Exercise 1: Reading the Label
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Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacokinetics
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Pharmacokinetics-activities within the body • It includes:
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Absorption Absorption
• Involves the way a drug enters the body and passes into the fluids and tissues. – Passive transport – Active transport – Pinocytosis
• Rate of Absorption:– Drug Solubility –
• water soluble drugs • lipodystrophy
– Route of Administration – IV, IM, SC, Oral – Degree of blood flow through the tissues 13
Factors affecting Absorption Factors affecting Absorption
– Drug Solubility –
• water soluble drugs
• lipodystrophy
– Bioavailability- the extent to which active ingredients are absorbed and transported to sites of action.
– pH
– Drug concentration
– Circulation to site of absorption
– Absorbing surface
– Route of administration
– Presence of body conditions 14
Distribution Distribution
• Is defined as the way the drug moves from the circulating body fluids to its site of action.
Note: The greater the blood supply in a body organ, the faster the medication is absorbed
– Therapeutic effect – certain blood level is maintained for the drugs to be effective.
– Toxic effect - when blood level increase significantly over the therapeutic level.
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Bioavailability• is defined as the extent to which active ingredients are
absorbed and transported to sites of action. • Factors
1. Drug solubility
2. Pharmaceutical formulation
3. pH
4. Food
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Metabolism or Biotransformation Metabolism or Biotransformation • is defined as the process by which drug is
converted by the liver to inactive compounds through a series of chemical reactions.
– Plasma, kidneys and membranes of intestines.
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Excretion Excretion • Is the elimination of drugs from the
body
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Half-life Half-life
• Refers to the time required for the body to eliminate 50% of the drug. – It is important in planning the frequency of dosing.
• Short half-life (2-4 hours) : needs to be given frequently • Long half life: (21-24 hours): requires less frequent dosing
Note: It takes 5 to 6 half lives to eliminate approximately 98% of a drug from the body
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• Liver and kidney disease patients may have problems of excreting a drug.
• Difficulty in excreting a drug increases the half-life and increases the risk of toxicity.
• Implication: may require frequent diagnostic tests and measuring renal and hepatic function.
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Half-life Half-life
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Pharmacodynamics
Pharmacodynamics
PHARMACODYNAMICS
• Is the study of biochemical, and physiological and effect of drugs.
• “what the drug does to the body”
– Primary Effects - drug’s desired or therapeutic effect
– Secondary Effects – all other effects whether desirable or undesirable.
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Drug Attachment
• Medication chemically binds to specific sites called “receptor sites” – Agonist-chemical fits at
receptor site well – Antagonist- a chemical blocks
another chemical from getting to a receptor
– Partial agonist - attach to the receptor but only produce a small effect
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Basics of Drug Action • Desired action – the expected response of a
medication
• Side effects –known and frequently
experienced, expected reaction to drug.
• Adverse reaction –unexpected, unpredictable reactions that are not related too usual effects of a normal dose of the drug. 27
Drug Interaction
• Takes place when one drug alters the action of another drug.
• Some are helpful but often produce adverse effects.
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Common Drug Interactions
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• Additive effect- takes place when 2 drugs are given together & double the effect is produced.
Alcohol + aspirin= Pain relief
• Antagonistic effect- takes place when 1 drug interferes with the action of another drug.– Protamine sulphate to counteract heparin
toxicity
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• Displacement effect - takes place when 1 drug replaces another at the drug receptor site, increasing the effect of the 1st drug.
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Common Drug Interactions
• Incompatibility –occurs when 2 drugs mixed together in a syringe produce a chemical reaction so they cannot be given. e.g. Protamine sulfate & vitamin K
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• Interference- occurs when 1 drug promotes the rapid excretion of another, thus reducing the activity of the 1st.
• Synergistic effect takes place when the effect of 2 drugs taken at the same time is greater than the sum of each drug given alone.
E.g. combining diuretics & adrenergic blockers to lower the BP
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Pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacotherapeutics
Pharmacotherapeutics
• Is defined as the use of drugs to treat diseases.
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Depends on:
Severity Urgency Prognosis of patient’s condition
Routes of Drug Administration
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1: Enteral Medications
• administered directly into the G.I.T. through the oral, nasogastric (NG) or rectal routes
Advantages:Convenience for nurse & patientMost medications are available in oral routeInexpensive to make oral preparationsCan be removed by gastric lavage or make
to vomit
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Disadvantages
• cannot be administered to very nauseated/vomiting or unconscious persons
• some loose their effectiveness if mixed with gastric secretions
• onset of action may vary due to changes in absorption in the GIT
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Forms of Oral Medication
• Capsules-are gelatin containers that hold powder or liquid medicine.
• Elixirs- clear liquids made up of drugs dissolved in alcohol & water with coloring & flavoring agents added.
• Emulsions-are solutions that have small droplets of water & medication dispersed in oil, or oil & medication dispersed in water.
• Lozenges- are medicines mixed with a hard sugar base to produce a small, hard preparation of various shapes & sizes.
• Suspensions- are liquids w/ solid, insoluble drug particles dispersed throughout.
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Forms of Oral Medication• Syrups-are liquids w/ a high sugar content
designed to disguise the bitter taste of a drug. Pediatric use.
• Tablets-dried, powdered drugs compressed into small shapes.
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2.Parenteral Administration
• Reasons:1. When the patient cannot take an oral
medication
2. When the medication must be given quickly
3. When medication might be destroyed by gastric enzymes
4. When medication must be given at a controlled rate
5. When the medication is not available in an enteral form.
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• INTRAMUSCULAR – 90 °– Provides faster medication absorption
because of muscle’s greater vascularity
• SUBCUTANEOUS- 45 °– Placing medications in the loose
connective tissue under the dermis
• INTRADERMAL- 15 °
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Other Routes of Administration • Topical administration – skin
– Cleanse – Soften – Disinfect– Lubricate – E.g. clotrimazole –cream
dermatophytosis – atropine- eye-dilate the pupil
• Transdermal route - nitroglycerin (skin patch) systemic vasodilation in angina
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Other Routes of Administration • Inhalation – provides rapid delivery of
drugs to a large area of mucus membranes & tissues of the respiratory system. – Anesthesia – Bronchodilators
• Intranasal – desmopressin for diabetes insipidus – Calcitonin- a peptide hormone for tx of
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• Intrathecal injection- introduction of hypodermic needle into the subarachnoid space for the purpose of instilling a material for diffusion throughout the spinal fluid.
• Intraventricular- space into the ventricle
– Both gains access to the CSF e.g. amphotericin B –in meningitis
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First-Pass Effect
• Drugs taken orally are absorbed from the small intestine directly into the portal venous system. The portal veins deliver these absorbed molecules into the liver, which immediately transforms most of the chemicals delivered to it by a series of liver enzymes.
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metabolites
Inactive (excreted)
Protein Binding
• Most drugs are bound to some extent to proteins in the blood to be carried into circulation.
• The protein-drug complex is relatively large & cannot enter into capillaries & then into tissues to react. The drug must be freed from the protein’s binding site at the tissues.
• Tightly bound – released very slowly. these drugs have very long duration of action (not freed to be broken down or excreted) , slowly released into the reactive tissue.
• Loosely bound – tend to act quickly and excreted quickly
• Compete for protein binding sites – alters effectiveness or causing toxicity when 2 drugs are given together.
Protein Binding
Half-Life • Half life of a drug is the time it takes for the
amount of drug in the body to decrease to one-half of the peak level it previously achieved.
• e.g. – 20 mg of a drug with half-life of 2 hours, 10 mg of the
drug will remain 2 hours after administration. Two hours later, 5 mg will be left (one-half of the previous level); in 2 more hours, only 2.5 mg will remain.
Why to know half-life?
– To determine the appropriate timing for a drug dose or
– determining the duration of a drug’s effect on the body.
Determining the Impact of Half-Life on Drug Levels
• A patient is taking a drug that has a half-life of 12 hours. You are trying to determine when a 50-mg dose of the drug will be gone from the body. – In 12 hours, half of the 50 mg (25 mg) would be in
the body
– In another 12 hours (24 hours) half of 25 mg (12.5 mg) would remain in the body.
– After 36 hours, half of 12.5 mg (6.25 mg) would remain
– After 48 hours, half of the 6.25 mg (3.125 mg) would remain
– After 60 hours, half of the 3.125 mg (1.56 mg) would remain
– After 72 hours, half of the 1.56 mg (0.78 mg) would remain
Determining the Impact of Half-Life on Drug Levels
– After 84 hours, half of the 0.78 mg (0.39 mg) would remain
– Twelve more hours (for a total of 96 hours) would reduce the drug amount to 0.195 mg
– Finally,12 more hours (108 hours) would reduce the amount of the drug into the body to 0.097 mg, which is negligible
– Therefore, it would take 4 ½ to 5 days to clear the drug from the body.
Determining the Impact of Half-Life on Drug Levels