Unit 5: Pharmacologic Principles​

What is the Radiographers role in regards to the ASRT and medication/radiation exposure?

Prepare, administer and document activities related to medications and radiation exposure in accordance with federal and state laws, regulations or lawful institutional policy.

What is Standard 4 of the ASRT Practice Standards?

Monitors the patient for reactions to medications

What is a professional radiographer who administers drugs expected to know?

• safe dosage, the safe route of administration, and the

  limitations of the drug to be administered

• All potential hazards of any drug that is incorrectly or unsafely administered must also be known, if drug administration errors are made because of lack of knowledge, the person who administers the drug is legally liable.​

What is Employer Prerogative?

• Free will of management to conduct its own affairs to achieve its purpose.​

• Exercise of its management prerogative through policies, rules and regulations on work-related activities of the employees must always be fair and reasonable and the corresponding penalties, when prescribed, commensurate to the offense involved and to the degree of the infraction.​

What is “any substance that, when taken into a living organism, may modify one or more of its functions​”?

Drug

What is the “Study of drugs and their origin, nature, properties, and effects on living organisms​”?

Pharmacology

What is a “classified system of names”?

Nomenclature

What is an example of Nomenclature?

• Chemical Name:​

N-acetyl-p-aminophenol, C8H9NO2​

• Generic Name ​

(Nonproprietary name) ​

acetaminophen​

• Trade/Brand Name ​

(Trademark, Trade name, Proprietary name) ​

Tylenol​

What is responsible for “action or function”?

Chemical Group

What are chemical groups grouped into, and what are similar between them?

Grouped into FAMILIES that have similar chemical actions​

What are some examples of Chemical Group Families?

Family: Relieve Pain → analgesics​

Family: Treat high BP → antihypertensives​

Family: fight inflammation → anti-inflammatories​

What are “legend drugs”?

Prescription

What is “over-the-counter” medication called?

Non-prescription

What does the FDA caution in regards to dispensing without a prescription?

FDA: “Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription”​

What is the “Desired therapeutic effect of the drug​”?

Primary effect

What is the Therapeutic Index/Range​?

• Measures the safety of a drug​

• The relation between dosage at which the intended effect of a drug is obtained and the amount that produces an unwanted effect​

What Chemical Group “Relieve pain without causing loss of consciousness​”?

Analgesics