This course deals with pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, clinical/therapeutic uses and toxicology of drugs. Emphasis is given on how a drug works to anticipate when giving a drug to a patient are of paramount importance include administering drugs, calculating medication dosages based on given setting, assessing drug effects,intervening to make a drug more tolerable, and providing teaching about drugs and the drug regimen.
Discuss prescription and/or over-the-counter medications used inthe management of a variety of patient conditions encountered during physical therapy management.
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY
Various principal of pharmacology
Introduction to pharmacokinematics
Various drug dosage forms and pharmacological doses
Various routes of drug administration and their advantages/disadvantages
Factors modifying drug absorption and distribution
Major mechanisms responsible for drug metabolism
Factors modifying drug metabolism
Basic principles of drug excretion
Factors modifying drug excretion
Various mechanisms by which drugs exert their effects
Various types of pharmacological graphs Identification of the therapeutic index and therapeutic window ona given dose response curve
DRUG USED TO TREAT PAIN AND INFLAMMATION
Therapeutic uses of opioid analgesics.
Classification of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on thebasis of mechanism of action.
Pharmacological management of rheumatoid and osteoarthritis.
Patient control analgesia
PHARMACOLOGY OF CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
Classification of the drugs, which modulate the central
Nervous System according to their general principles, selectivity, specificity and mode of action.
Pharmacokinetics, clinical uses, contraindications, adverse effects and toxicity of drugs acting on above receptor system Sedative, hypertonic and anxiety agents
Drugs used to treat effective disorders depression and manicdepression
Antipsychotic and antiepileptic drugs
Pharmacologic management of
Parkinson disease General and local anesthetics
DRUGS AFFECTING SKELETAL MUSCLE
Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
AUTONOMIC AND CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
Introduction to Autonomic Pharmacology Cholinergic,
Adrenergic and Antihypertensive
Drugs Treatment of Angina Pectoris
Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
Treatment of Congestive
Heart Failure Treatment of Coagulation
Disorders and Hyperlipidemia
Textbook of pharmacology and therapeutics by 
The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics by 
Pharmacology an illustrated review with questions and explanations by 
Rang & dale's pharmacology review by 
