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Case Study
You are a nurse researcher working for a pharmaceutical company conducting clinical trials. Your current trial is underway, and you are recruiting participants for a randomized controlled trial in which participants will receive either the medication or a placebo. Your potential participant is reading the consent and has the following questions:
Please answer the following questions pertaining to this Case Study.
Question 1; What is meant by a placebo medication?” What is your best response?
Question 2: “What does bioavailability mean, and why is it important to me?” What is your best response?
Question 3: “Can you please explain what is meant by variants that may alter drug metabolism?”
Question no 1
Placebo
placebos are treatments where real or effective medicationd are not given to the patient instead some vitamin tablets or pure water will be administers to the patients or the person under study . It specifically can affect how the patient perceives their condition as well as how they encourage the body's chemical processes specifically for relieving the pain or the disease conditions. It has many effects in many patients including chronic diseased patients and is also used jn research studies
Question no 2
In pharmacology, the bioavailability of a drug is a subcategory of the absorption and is the fraction or the percentage of an administered medication that specifically reaches the systemic circulation of the person .
It is important to you as to find the amount of drug that reach the systemic circulation. Only tge drug that reach the systemic circulation of body will produce a phacological effecf so it should be calculated accordingly. So for you to calcualte the correct dose and to get the pharmacological effect the bioavailability of drug is important
Example iv drugs have 100% bioavailability
Question no 3
Variants that affecf drug metabolism are the external factors that specifically affect the drug metabolism in individuals. So these might varry from individual to individual
They mainly are the variants that are unavoidable like
These are the main variants