Clinical Pharmacy

Farmácia Clínica

Curse code:9494446

Patrícia Maria Cavaco Silva de Sá Montez

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:

With this curricular unit the student should apprehend the professional pharmaceutical practice dedicated to the rational use of drugs, promoting their adequate, effective, safe and economical use, by patients and all health professionals. To perform these functions with competence the pharmacist must have a responsible performance when dealing with drugs, and master all necessary knowledge and skills necessary for their correct use.
Clinical Pharmacy aims to provide knowledge and skills that will allow the student to evaluate with consistency and using the best technical and scientific reasoning, the therapies used by patients.in the most important diseases, optimizing its results.

Syllabus:

1. Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy
2. Therapeutics: general strategy.
   Diseases
3. Haematology
   Anaemia
   Haemostasis, fibrinolysis and anticoagulation
4. Rheumatology
   Arthritic disease
   Gout
   Systemic lupus erythematosus
5. Pain
   Principles of analgesic use
   Analgesics and adjuvants
6. Respiratory diseases
   Asthma
   Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
7. Intestinal diseases
   Malabsorption
   Inflammatory bowel disease
8. Liver diseases
   Liver failure
   Adverse drug reactions
9. Central nervous system
   Psychiatric diseases
   Neurological diseases
10. Renal diseases
    Renal failure
    Important renal diseases
11. Endocrine diseases
    Diabetes mellitus
    Thyroid disease
12. Important infectious diseases
    Therapeutic decisions in antimicrobial therapy
13. Cardiovascular diseases
    Hypertension
    Heart failure
    Ischaemic heart disease

Suggested Bibliography:

• Wells, B. G., J. T. Dipiro, T. L. Schwinghammer, C. V. Dipiro. (2014) 9th Edition. “Pharmacotherapy Handbook”. McGraw Hill Medical. ISBN-13: 978-0071830133
• Walker, R., Whittlesea, C. (2011) 5th Edition. “Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics”. Churchill Livingstone. ISBN: 978-0702042935
• Prontuário Terapêutico 10. 2011. Instituto Nacional da Farmácia e do Medicamento
• Addison, B., Brown, A., Edwards, R., Gray, G. (2012) 5th Edition. “Minor illness or major disease?”. Pharmaceutical Press, London. ISBN: 978-0853699613
• Greene RJ, Harris ND. (2008) 3rd Edition. “Pathology and Therapeutics for Pharmacists. A basis for clinical pharmacy practice”. Pharmaceutical Press. ISBN: 978-0853696902