Clinical Pharmacy: Course Outline (611-VA)

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

1. Patient disease profile
2. Taking case history
3. Drug profile of atleast 25 important medications e.g.
4. Adrenaline
5. Aminoglycosides
6. Anti TB drugs
7. Antiepileptics
8. Atropine
9. Benzodiazepines
10. Cepahlosporins
11. Chlorpheniramine
12. Cimetidine
13. Digoxin
14. Dobutamine
15. Dopamine
16. Fluroquinolone
17. Frusemide
18. Lactulose
19. Macrolides
20. Metoclopramide
21. Morphine/Pethedine
22. Nifedipine
23. NSAIDS
24. ORS
25. Penicillins
26. Prednisolone
27. Salbutamol
28. Vancomycin

Patient Counseling

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

1. Scope definition and aims of pharmacovigilance
2. 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