[HOSPI-PRE-01] DEFINITION OF TERMS

THIS FLASH CARDS IS ABOUT [HOSPI] DEFINITION OF TERMS.

Active Ingredient

This is the portion of a drug that has therapeutic properties.

Antineoplastics

Acts to prevent, inhibit or half development of a neoplasm (tumor).

Oxalipatin (Eloxatin)

This is an example of antineoplastic used in the treatment of metastatic of colon cancer.

Metastatic of Colon Cancer

Oxalipatin (Eloxatin) is an antineoplastic used in the treatment of?

Area Under the Curve (AUC)

This refers to the amount or extent of drug absorption.

Drug Absorption

Area Under the Curve (AUC) refers to the amount or extent of?

Bin card 1

This is a stock record form in which information on receipts, prices, issuances, and balances of stocks is recorded. It is maintained with each product in the storage area as a duplicate record.

1. Receipts

2. Prices

3. Issuances

4. Balances

Bin card 1 is a stock record form in which (1)____, (2)____, (3)____, and (4)___ of stocks is recorded.

Duplicate Record

Bin card 1 is maintained with each product in the storage area as a?

Bioavailability

This refers to the rate and extent of availability of an active ingredient from a dosage form as measured by the concentration/time curve in the systemic circulation or its excretion in the urine.

Bioequivalence

This refers to two related drugs that show comparable bioavailability and similar times to achieve peak blood concentration.

Biological Products

These are viruses, sera, toxins, and analogous products used for the prevention or cure of human diseases.

Clinical Toxicology

It focuses on the effects of substances in patients caused by accidental poisoning or intentional overdoses of medications, drugs of abuse, household products or various other chemicals.

Cold Chain Monitors

These are cards used to monitor the temperature of vaccines during distribution.

Dangerous Drugs

This refers to drugs included in the list of Schedules annexed to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended by the 1972 protocol, and in the Schedules annexed to the 1971 Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances as enumerated in the annexes which are an integral part of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002.

Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002

Dangerous Drugs are an integral part of what law?

Device

This is an instrument, apparatus, or contrivances including their components, parts, and accessories intended for the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man or animals, or two (2) to affect the structure or any function of the body in man or animals.

Dispensing

This is the act by a validly registered pharmacist of filling a prescription or doctor’s order on the patient’s chart.

Drug-Drug Interaction

This refers to the pharmacologic or clinical response to the administration of a drug combination different from that anticipated from the known effects of the two (2) agents when given alone.

Drug Outlets

These are drugstores, hospital pharmacy and other business establishment, which sells drugs or medicines.

Drug Product or Medicine

This is a finished form that contains the active ingredient(s) generally, but not necessarily in association with inactive ingredients.

Drugs

These are articles recognized in the current official United States Pharmacopoeia—National Formulary (USP-NF).

First Expiry, First Out (FEFO)

This is a method of inventory management in which products with the earliest expiry date are the first products issued, regardless of the order in which they are received.

First Expiry, First Out (FEFO)

This method is more demanding than First In, First Out (FIFO).

First In, First Out (FIFO)

This is a method of inventory management in which the first products received is the first products issued.

Generic Dispensing

This is dispensing the patient’s/buyer’s choice from among generic equivalents, i.e., finished pharmaceutical products having the same active ingredients(s), same dosage form and same strength as the prescribed drug.

Generic Prescribing

This means prescribing of drugs and medicines using their generic name(s) or generic terminology.

Generic Substitution

This means the act of dispensing a different branded or unbranded drug product for the drug product prescribed (i.e., a pharmaceutical equivalent distributed by a different company).

Inventory

This refers to the total stock kept on hand at any storage point to protect against uncertainty, permit bulk purchasing, minimize waiting time, increase transportation efficiency, and buffer against seasonal fluctuations.

Inventory Control

This is a method of supply management that aims to provide sufficient stocks of drugs at the lowest costs possible.

Menu Card

This is a list of drug products in generic names with brand names, (if any), and corresponding selling prices, which is posted outside the dispensing area of the hospital pharmacy. It should be readily accessible to the patient/consumer.

Medication Error

This refers to any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient’s harm, while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer.

Non-prescription or OTC drug

These are drug that may be dispensed even without an order of a validly registered physician, dentist, or veterinarian in duly licensed drug outlets, when dispensing OTC drugs without a doctor’s prescription, it is the duty of the pharmacist to provide the necessary information and direction for use of the drug product.

Overdose

This is an intentional toxic exposure either in the form of su/cide attempt or as an inadvertent exposure secondary to intentional drug abuse.

Pallet

This is a transportable flat storage base with or without sides, designed to hold goods and to permit handling by mechanical aids such as pallet trucks and forklifts.

Peak Plasma Drug Concentration (Cmax)

This is the plasma drug concentration at Tmax that relates to the intensity of the pharmacological response.

Piggyback Infusions

These are solutions or dilutions given through a secondary line. This is used to administer doses of IV medications such as potassium or antibiotics.

6 inches

The piggyback is going through another set which tubing will be connected to the injection port of the main line when piggyback unit is hung on an IV of at least how many inches higher than the primary container?

Pharmaceutical Care

This means the responsible provision of pharmaco-therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve or maintains a patient’s quality of life.

Pharmaceutical Care

This is a collaborative process that aims to prevent or identify and solve medicinal products and health related problems. This is a continuous quality improvement process for the use of medicinal products.

Pharmaceutical Equivalence

This refers to medicinal products that contain the same active ingredient(s) in the same dosage forms that meets the same or comparable standards.

Pharmaceutical Equivalence

This does not necessarily imply bioequivalence as difference in the excipients and/or the manufacturing process can lead to faster or slower dissolution and/or absorption.

Pharmacodynamics

This is the response following administration of a drug is directly related to the concentration of the drug at the site of its action, which is a function of the dose, administered.

Pharmacoeconomics

This refers to the scientific discipline that compares the value of one pharmaceutical drug or drug therapy to another.

Pharmacoeconomics

This is also defined as “the description and analysis of the costs of drug therapy to healthcare systems and society”.

Pharmacokinetics

This is defined as the quantitative items dependent changes of both the plasma drug concentration and the total amount of drug in the body, following the drug’s administration by various routes.

Pharmacy

This is the branch of pharmacology that deals with the preparation, dispensing, and proper use of drugs.

Pharmacotherapeutics

This refers to the study of the uses of drugs in the treatment of disease.

Poison

This is any drug, active principle or preparation of the same capable of destroying life or seriously endangering health when applied externally to the body or introduced internally in moderate doses.

Poisoning

This refers to accidental toxic exposure (e.g., the case of an elderly patient who misreads a drug label) or unintentional (e.g., the case of an inquisitive toddler or a child who gives drugs to another child when ‘playing doctor’) or unawareness of the toxic pressure (e.g., they are the victim of an intended homicide).

Prescription

This means a written or electronic order and instruction of a validly registered physician, dentist, or veterinarian for the use of a specific drug product for a specific patient or animal. For the purpose of these Rules and Regulations, the doctor’s order on the patient’s chart for the use of specific drug(s) shall be considered a prescription.

Prescription or Ethical Drugs

These are drugs that can only be dispensed upon a written order or a validly registered physician, dentist, or veterinarian.

Quality Assurance

This is an investigational function involves the auditing of quality control procedure and systems with suggestions for changes as needed.

STAT Orders

These are defined as emergency medications (needed only in life threatening situations) and written by the prescribing physician.

5 minutes

The physician calls a STAT order to the attention of the nurse so it can be taken off the chart immediately. Pharmacy can fill these orders in how many minutes (or less) if the order is called down and ready for pick up?

S-3 License

This is a license issued by the PDEA to the pharmacists who sell, procure, acquire, deal in or with specified (a) dangerous drugs preparations or (b) drug preparations, in parenteral or tablet or capsule form, containing Table I controlled chemicals as the only active medicinal ingredient or containing Table I controlled chemical and therapeutically insignificant quantities of another active medicinal ingredient. It covers activities granted to S1 license holders.

Stock Card

This is a stock record form that provides basic information for inventory management by recording all transactions for an item including receipts, issues, orders received, and stock losses.

Therapeutic Equivalence

This means two similar drugs have comparable efficacy and safety.

Therapeutic Index

This is the ratio of the dose that produces toxicity to the dose that produces critically desired or effective response in a population of individuals.

Time for Peak Plasma Drug Concentration (Tmax)

This relates to the rate constants for systemic drug absorption and elimination.

Toxicology

This is the study of poisons, their actions, their detection, and the treatment of the conditions produced by them.

Wholesaler

This means and includes every person who acts as merchant, broker, or agent, who sells or distributes for resale pharmaceuticals, propriety medicines or pharmaceutical specialties.