Clinical Pharmacy: Course Outline (611-VA)

Clinical pharmacy is the branch of Pharmacy where pharmacists provide patient care that optimizes the use of medication and promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention.

Course Outline

General introduction to clinical pharmacy

Introduction to clinical pharmacy and related terms, definition, basic components, comparison with other clinical fields, scope of services.
General guidelines for clinical pharmacy practice.
Patient counseling compliance
Laboratory data interpretation
Electrolytes management
Clinical literature evaluation
Drug interactions
Medication errors

Patient profile & patient counseling

Patient disease profile
Taking case history
Drug profile of atleast 25 important medications e.g.
Adrenaline
Aminoglycosides
Anti TB drugs
Antiepileptics
Atropine
Benzodiazepines
Cepahlosporins
Chlorpheniramine
Cimetidine
Digoxin
Dobutamine
Dopamine
Fluroquinolone
Frusemide
Lactulose
Macrolides
Metoclopramide
Morphine/Pethedine
Nifedipine
NSAIDS
ORS
Penicillins
Prednisolone
Salbutamol
Vancomycin

Patient Counseling

E-Books

Surgical Anatomy of the Hand and Upper Extremity
Author: Doyle, James R. Botte.
Date Published: 2002
Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy
Author: Richardson, Ruth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2008
Subjects: Knee -- Wounds and injuries. Knee -- Wounds.
Anatomy of the Heart by Multislice Computed Tomography
Author: Faletra, Francesco Pandian, Natesa Ho, Siew Yen
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Date Published: 2009
Anatomy Live : Performance and the Operating Theatre
Author: Bleeker, Maaike
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Date Published: 2008

Course Outline

Clinical trials of drug substances

Designing of clinical trials
Types of trials
Choice of patients
Exclusion of patients and monitoring a clinical trial

Emergency treatment

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) cold blue

Drug interactions

Mechanism
Physiological factors affecting interaction
Types and level of drug interactions
Role of pharmacist in evaluating drug interaction & its management

Pharmacovigilance

Scope definition and aims of pharmacovigilance
Adverse drug reactions and side effects

Classification
Excessive pharmacological response
Idiosyncrasy
Secondary pharmacological effects
Allergic drug reactions
Detection
Management of ADR

Reporting of ADR in light of international health monitoring system

E-Books

Clinical Anatomy : Applied Anatomy for Students and Junior Doctors (13th Edition)
Author: Ellis, Harold Mahadevan, Vishy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Date Published: 2013
Subjects: Anatomy.
Topographical Anatomy with autopsy guide and clinical notes
Author: Valenta, Jiří Fiala, Pavel
Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
Date Published: 2013
Subjects: Anatomy, Surgical and topographical -- Popular works.
Anatomy for Problem Solving in Sports Medicine : The Knee
Author: Hattis, Philip F. Ranson, Craig Robertson, Angus
Publisher: M&K Publishing
Date Published: 2014
Posterolateral Knee Injuries : Anatomy, Evaluation, and Treatment
Author: LaPrade, Robert
Publisher: TNY
Date Published: 2006
Subjects: Knee -- Wounds and injuries.
Anatomy of Neuropsychiatry
Author: Heimer, Lennart Trimble, Michael Van Hoesen, Gary W.
Publisher: Academic Press
Date Published: 2007
Oxford American Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy
Author: McCarthy, Michelle Kockler, Denise R. Wiffen, Phil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Date Published: 2009
Pharmacy Law and Practice
Author: Merrills, Jon Fisher, Jonathan Fisher, Jonathan
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Date Published: 2006