complementary health approaches (CHA)
interventions that can be used together with conventional medicine as a
complement (in addition)
integrative health (IH)
combination of both mainstream medical treatments and complementary
(alternative) therapies to treat a patient
categories of compl...
✓ highest blood level of a drug, obtained about an hour after the dose
trough level
✓ lowest blood level of a drug, obtained before the next dose
half-life
✓ amount of time it takes for 50% of drug to be removed from the body
idiosyncratic effect (paradoxical effect)
✓ unusual response to a drug, even could be the opposite of the expected
response
drug tolerance
✓ body needs larger doses of medication to achieve desired effect
toxic effect
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