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Objectives:
This course is designed to provide students with basic introduction to the therapy of common disease states. Considerations and precautions in selection, dosing and monitoring of drug used to treat commonly encountered pharmacotherapeutic problems. Given a patient database students will learn how to evaluate, integrate and conceptualize in a concise organized manner the patient drug therapy at a competency level necessary for effective communication with other health professionals utilizing the concept of pharmaceutical care.
Contents:
This course will help the student understand therapeutic concept in the management of disease states through both formal lectures and structured case analysis discussions. Topics include, PART I: fluids and electrolytes ,acid-base disturbance, renal failure(acute, chronic/dialysis),anemia, hypertension, heart failure, coronary artery dialysis, myocardial infarction, arrhythmias, dyslipidemias, peripheral vascular disorders, thrombosis, intensive care therapeutic. PART II: endocrine disorders, (thyroid, DM), asthma, COPD, rhinitis, upper-gastrointestinal disorders, inflammatory bowel disease, alcoholic liver disease, rheumatoid disorders, gout and hyperurecemia.
Course Outcomes:
1. Prepare the student to critically considering precautions and considerations in selection, dosing, and monitoring of drugs used to treat commonly encountered pharmacotherapeutic problems and disease states to be able:
2. To establish a systematic problem solving approach to the selection of appropriate therapeutic regimens based upon specific patient needs.
3. To define therapeutic endpoints, monitoring parameters for efficacy and toxicity, duration of therapy, appropriate laboratory tests for differential diagnosis, and suggest alternative drug(s) whenever indicated.
4. To select the drug of choice, other commonly used drugs for such condition, managing and monitoring adverse drug reactions; and handling the pharmacokinetics & pharmacoeconomic aspects of the selected drug(s).
Principal Textbook:
· Applied Therapeutics, The clinical Use of Drugs; Marry Anne, Coda Kimble; Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2001.
Supplementary Textbooks:
· Textbook of therapeutics, drugs and disease management , Ed., Eric T. Herfindal and Dick R.Gourely,7th Ed Williams and Wilkins(2000).
· Handbook of Applied therapeutics; Paperback/Lippincott, Williams and Wilkones, 2002.
· The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics; Shabhada N. Ahya and Kellie Flood; Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2001.
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