This document outlines the topics to be covered in a clinical pharmacy course, including pharmaceutical care and applying care plans, the role of clinical pharmacists in communities, clinical therapeutics covering disease management and treatment strategies, clinical toxicology on poison treatment and antidotes, safe intravenous therapy and hazards, and improving patient non-compliance. Specific clinical situations like common cold, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria and more will be given a basic introduction regarding their features, causes, pathophysiology and treatment.
This document outlines the topics to be covered in a clinical pharmacy course, including pharmaceutical care and applying care plans, the role of clinical pharmacists in communities, clinical therapeutics covering disease management and treatment strategies, clinical toxicology on poison treatment and antidotes, safe intravenous therapy and hazards, and improving patient non-compliance. Specific clinical situations like common cold, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria and more will be given a basic introduction regarding their features, causes, pathophysiology and treatment.
This document outlines the topics to be covered in a clinical pharmacy course, including pharmaceutical care and applying care plans, the role of clinical pharmacists in communities, clinical therapeutics covering disease management and treatment strategies, clinical toxicology on poison treatment and antidotes, safe intravenous therapy and hazards, and improving patient non-compliance. Specific clinical situations like common cold, pneumonia, tuberculosis, malaria and more will be given a basic introduction regarding their features, causes, pathophysiology and treatment.
1. PHARMACEUTICAL CARE, ITS SCOPE, MANAGEMENT AND APPLICATION OF CARE PLAN. 2. ROLE OF CLINICAL PHARMACIST IN COMMUNITY PHARMACY. 3. CLINICAL THERAPEUTICS: (a) General Strategy: Terminology of Disease. Management and Treatment. Drug Selection. (b)Basic introduction of some clinical situations, their clinical features, etiology, pathophysiology and treatment of causes: Common Cold, Pharyngitis and Tonsilitis, Pneumonia, Tuberculosis, Diarrhea, Malaria, Meningitis, Tetanus, Typhoid Fever, Measles, Rabies, AIDS, Congestive cardiac failure, Conjunctivitis, Anaemia, Gout, Asthma, Ulcer, Diabetes mellitus, Hypertension, Hapatitis, Dermatology (Scabies, Fungal diseases). 4. CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY: (a) General information. Role of pharmacist in treatment of poisoning and general management of poisoning & overdosage. Role and Status of Poison Control Centre. (b)Antidotes and their mechanism of action 5. SAVE INTRAVENOUS THERAPY & HAZARDS OF INTRAVENOUS THERAPY. 6. NON-COMPLIANCE: Definition, introduction and importance, Extent of non-compliance, Methods of assessment, Reasons for non-compliance, Strategies for improving compliance and Designing of compliance trials.