Blood Pharmacology

• additive - sum action of 2 or more drugs given to a patient - total strength is sum of the individual drugs
• contraindication - condition where a drug should not be given
• drug interaction - alteration of the effect of one drug on another drug taken at the same time
• potentiation - use of one drug to boost the effects of another drug (total strength is greater than the sum of the individual strengths)
• anticoagulant - prevents blood clot formation
• antihemorrhagic - prevents bleeding
• antiplatelet agent - prevents the action of platelets
• fibrinolytic - dissolves existing clots
• hematinic - increases RBC's or Hb