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What is the term for the mouth or oral cavity?
What does interaction mean?
To act upon one another
What is an ointment?
A soft, fatty substance having antiseptic or healing properties
What is the term for under the tongue?
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What is a suppository?
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What does therapeutic mean?
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What does topical refer to?
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What is tolerance in medical terms?
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What does transdermal mean?
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What is the purpose of a prescription?
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Study Notes
Vocabulary Terms
- Buccal: Refers to the mouth or oral cavity.
- Interaction: Describes the action of entities acting upon one another.
- Ointment: A soft, fatty substance with antiseptic or healing properties.
- Sublingual: Pertains to the area under the tongue.
- Suppository: A cylindrical or conical medicated material inserted into the rectum or vagina for absorption.
- Therapeutic: Indicates having medicinal or healing properties.
- Topical: Means applying medication directly to the surface of the skin.
- Tolerance: The ability to build resistance to a drug.
- Transdermal: Referring to the delivery of medication through or across the skin.
Routes of Administration
- Administration Factors: Based on absorption rate, medication distribution, biotransformation, and elimination processes.
- Oral: Medications taken by mouth in solid or liquid form.
- Buccal: Medications placed between the cheek and gum for absorption via mucous membranes.
- Sublingual: Medications placed under the tongue for rapid absorption.
- Drops: Liquid solutions intended for administration in eyes, ears, nose, or orally for infants.
- Inhalation: Medications breathed in through nose or mouth via sprays or aerosols.
- Intradermal: Administered by shallow injection just under the skin.
- Intramuscular: Injected into muscle tissue, allowing for delayed absorption.
- Intranasal: Medications inserted through the nostrils.
- Otic: Medications delivered into the ear canal.
- Rectal: Inserted into the rectum, usually as ointments or suppositories.
- Topical: Applied to the skin's surface.
- Transdermal: Adhesive patches delivering time-released medication.
- Vaginal: Delivered manually or via applicator into the vagina.
Prescriptions
- Definition: A written order from a licensed practitioner authorizing medication or treatment for self-administration.
- Prescription Requirements: Include practitioner and patient details, date of issue, medication name, dosage form, quantity, usage directions, refills, and prescriber's signature.
- Medical Records: Should contain a comprehensive log of prescriptions and patient information for tracking purposes.
Warning Labels
- Purpose: Brightly colored labels placed on medication bottles by pharmacists to alert patients to specific usage instructions.
- Importance: Medical assistants must emphasize adherence to warning labels to ensure patient safety.
Seven Rights of Medication Administration
- Right Patient: Confirm patient identity through their name and another identifier, such as date of birth.
- Right Medication: Verify the medication against the order a minimum of four times before administration.
- Right Dose: Ensure the correct dosage is confirmed through careful reading of the medication order.
- Right Route/Method: Administer medication through the correct route (e.g., oral, intramuscular) and by the appropriate method.
- Right Technique: Follow the proper procedure for administering the medication, such as injection techniques.
- Right Time: Administer the medication at the prescribed time to maintain the therapeutic effect.
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