Using lexicomp, briefly compare the stated pharmacokinetic parameters of acetaminophen and ibuprofen in the following three questions: [lexicomp is available as a link from the pharmacology site on sakai and also from online resources on the school website]
a. in healthy adults, comparing acetaminophen and ibuprofen, which pharmacokinetic parameters are similar and which are significantly different?
b. how does recommended dose and method for determining dose differ from adult dosing when considering healthy children between 6 months old and 15 years old?
c. you have a patient with renal impairment who requires post-operative pain medication. according to lexicomp, how should acetaminophen therapy be adjusted to account for this condition and which other easily adjustable parameter(s) might you consider modifying?

the answer is:  

line graphs show patterns in data with variables that change over time; whereas, circle graphs show data as parts out of a whole (such as out of 100%).

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).

c-14 is carbon-14, or radiocarbon.   it is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.