D. Pharma 2nd Year Notes
Part-I: Hospital Pharmacy:
Hospital- Definition,
Function, classifications based on various
criteria, organization, Management and health delivery system in India.
Hospital Pharmacy:
Definition Functions and objectives of Hospital pharmaceutical services. Location,
Layout, Flow chart of materials and men.
Personnel and facilities requirements including equipments based
on individual and basic needs. Requirements and abilities required for Hospital
pharmacists.
Drug Distribution
system in Hospitals. Out-patient service, In-patient services- types of
services detailed discussion of unit Dose system, Floor ward stock system,
satellite pharmacy services, central sterile services, Bed side pharmacy.
Manufacturing:
Economical considerations, estimation of demand.
Sterile manufacture-
Large and small volume parenterals, facilities, requirements, layout production
planning, man-power requirements.
Non-sterile
manufacture- Liquid orals, externals, Bulk concentrates. Procurement of
stores and testing of raw materials.
Nomenclature and uses of surgical instruments and Hospital
Equipments and health accessories.
P.T.C.(pharmacy
Therapeutic Committee)
Hospital Formulary
system and their organization, functioning, composition.
Drug Information
service and Drug Information Bulletin.
Surgical dressing
like cotton, gauze, bandages and adhesive tapes including their pharmacopoeial
tests for quality. Other hospital supply eg. I.V.sets, B.G. sets, Ryals tubes,
Catheters, Syringes etc.
Application of
computers in maintenance of records, inventory control, medication
monitoring, drug information and data storage and retrieval in hospital retail
pharmacy establishment.
Part II: Clinical Pharmacy:
Introduction to
Clinical pharmacy practice- Definition, scope.
Modern dispensing
aspects- Pharmacists and patient counseling and advice for the use of common
drugs, medication history.
Common daily
terminology used in the practice of Medicine.
Disease,
manifestation and patho-physiology including salient symptoms to understand
the disease like Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cardio-vascular
diseases, Epilepsy, Diabetes, Peptic
Ulcer, Hypertension.
Physiological parameters
with their significance.
Drug Interactions:
Definition and introduction. Mechanism of Drug Interaction. Drug-drug
interaction with reference to analgesics, diuretics, cardiovascular drugs,
Gastro-intestinal agents. Vitamins and Hypoglycemic agents. Drug-food
interaction.
Adverse Drug
Reaction: Definition and significance. Drug-Induced diseases and
Teratogenicity.
Drugs in Clinical
Toxicity- Introduction, general treatment of poisoning, systemic antidotes,
Treatment of insecticide poisoning, heavy metal poison, Narcotic drugs,
Barbiturate, Organo-phosphorus poisons.
Drug dependences,
drug abuse, addictive drugs and their treatment, complications.
Bio-availability of
drugs, including factors affecting it.
Books Recommended
:( Latest editions)
1. Remington's
pharmaceutical sciences.
2. Testing of raw
materials used in (1).
3. Evaluation of
surgical dressings.
4. Sterilization of
surgical instruments, glassware and other hospital supplies.
5. Handling and use
of data processing equipments.
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