Exam 15: Using Medications Safely and Effectively

According to Berardi, older adults are the leading consumers of:

The core of accurate drug administration is:

Pharmacokinetics is composed of four basic actions. This action describes where the drug goes once it gets into the body:

Your 75-year-old patient is having surgery. Which of the following herbal products may increase the risk of bleeding?

This drug route makes use of the GI track for drug absorption but bypasses the oral route:

This term is used to describe the physiological response to a drug, or what the drug does to the body:

Of the top 15 drugs linked most often to fatalities, four are opioid pain relievers and three are:

These products are not recommended for use in most older adults due to the risk for worsening hypertension, diabetes, benign prostatic hypertrophy, arrhythmias, heart disease, and glaucoma:

This action of pharmacokinetics typically inactivates a drug:

If these were classified as a distinct disease, they would be ranked as the fifth leading cause of death in the United States:

The routes of drug administration include:

Resources to identify drugs that are potentially inappropriate for use in adults over age 65 because of their adverse effects include: