pharm tech

A set of study flashcards covering regulation, pharmaceutical care, history, eras, key figures, and terms.

How did pharmacy change through regulation over history?

From unregulated trade to licensed profession ensuring safety and quality.

Why did retail pharmacies survive the industrial period?

They offered personalized care/advice and prepared/customized medications locally.

What is pharmaceutical care?

Responsible provision of drug therapy to improve patient outcomes.

Why is pharmaceutical care necessary?

Ensures safe/effective use, prevents problems, provides education/support.

Briefly describe the history of pharmacy in America.

Started with apothecaries, grew with schools/regulation, now patient-centered.

Pharmaceutical research before vs. during the Patient Care Era?

Before: discovery/compounding. During: safety, outcomes, patient care.

What is the Ebers Papyrus?

Ancient Egyptian text (1500 BC) with 800+ remedies.

What did early civilizations believe caused disease?

Spirits.

Where was the first pharmacy shop?

Baghdad.

Regulatory tool of the Empiric Era?

Pharmacopeia.

When did pharmacy begin in the New World?

18th century.

What did tribes use in rituals to control spirits?

Plants.

Where did organized pharmacy begin?

Babylonia.

Who criticized physicians not preparing remedies?

Galen.

After Rome, where were pharmacy advances preserved?

Monasteries.

What are galenicals?

Syrups, conserves, confections, juleps.

During the Renaissance, who provided services to royalty?

Guilds.

Who started the first US hospital (1751)?

Benjamin Franklin.

Which era emphasized R&D; into medicines?

Scientific Era.

Who introduced pharmaceutical care concept?

C.D. Hepler.

What is the therapeutic role of pharmacists?

Maximize outcomes with minimal harm.

Example of recombinant DNA product?

Insulin.

What future therapy may cure diseases genetically?

Gene therapy.

Who introduced 'control' into US pharmacy?

William Procter Jr.

What specifies drug forms/compositions?

Pharmacopoeia.

Where was the first US hospital?

Philadelphia.

What was opium-alcohol tonic of 1800s?

Laudanum.

When did universities and pharma companies collaborate?

20th century.

What degree became entry-level in 2004?

Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD).

When was pharmacy tech training standardized?

1990s.

What disease was Jenner's vaccine for?

Smallpox.

Earliest record of healing methods?

2600 BC.

Who wrote the Pen T'sao?

Chinese.

Father of Medicine?

Hippocrates.

Father of Botany?

Theophrastus.

Father of Toxicology?

Mithridates.

Author of De Materia Medica?

Dioscorides.

Father of Pharmacology?

Dioscorides.

Who are Cosmos and Damien?

Patron saints of pharmacy and medicine.

Who separated pharmacy from medicine?

Frederick II (Holy Roman Emperor).

Who emphasized chemical medicine?

Paracelsus.

First form of self-regulation?

Guilds.

Which country regulated pharmacy by government control?

Germany.

What did NOT occur in Renaissance pharmacy?

University education required for pharmacists.

First hospital pharmacist in America?

Jonathan Roberts.

Father of American Pharmacy?

William Procter.

Which science did pharmacists contribute most to?

Chemistry.

What events started industrial revolution in pharmacy?

Resistance to compounding + demand for medicines.

Which advancement was NOT in Industrial Era?

Genetic engineering.

Which era developed pharmaceutical care?

Patient Care Era.

Which era discovered plants could harm?

Empiric Era.

Which era biologically prepared drug products?

Biotechnology & Genetic Engineering.

Which era saw pharmacies in the New World?

Ancient Era.

Which era mass-produced medicines?

Industrial Era.

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