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Name: Chantea Braddock Please answer the case study questions, showing your work where applicable. Each question is worth 5 points. Case 1 A patient is prescribed a pain medication with the directions: i tab PO q 12h The patient takes …

The world market for Over The Counter pharmaceutical products was estimated at $51. 45 billion dollars in 1995 and was expected to sustain a compound annual growth rate of 7 percent through the year 2004. Among the factors that are …

Women under 60 and men under 50 who have diabetes but no other major risk factors for heart disease probably should not be on low-dose aspirin therapy, new research suggests. The new recommendations are based on close examination of nine …

Principles: Binders, for instance, starch, microcrystalline cellulose and silica gel, which are commonly found in the painkilling tablets and used to prevent the components from crumbling on storage or while being swallowed, are all insoluble in water and common organic …

Introduction: Commonly used as Aspirin, acetylsalicylic acid is an analgesic (pain reliever), which is one of the products of the esterification reaction between salicylic acid and acetic anhydride. This esterification occurs since the hydroxyl group from the salicylic acid reacts …

Introduction Aspirin, Caffeine and Salicylamide were extracted from an over-the-counter pain reliever (BC Powder). These components were separated by manipulating their solubilities by adjusting the acidity and basicity of the solution. By doing this, the three components were forced into …

Abstract The purpose of this experiment was to determine if reacting an acid with an alcohol produced an ester. In this experiment the carboxylic acid of acetylsalicylic acid was esterified by methanol and produced methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen).1 Thin …

|Pathology & Etiology: | | | |Rheumatic fever is an acute inflammatory disease of the heart potentially involving all layers of the heart. Resulting from scaring and deformity of the heart | |valves. (Lewis, 2011) | |Rheumatic fever may develop …

Introduction: The goal of this experiment was to identify an unknown analgesic drug through the use of thin-layer chromatography. The drugs used were, Unknown #1, caffeine, aspirin, and acetaminophen. Thin-Layer Chromatography is a technique for identifying substances using a mobile …

Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to identify the brand name of an unknown commercial analgesic product by TLC analysis. Unknown #1 solution was run against standard solutions of individual analgesics. The components of the unknown product were identified …