Clinical Pharmacy
Farmácia Clínica
Course 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:
- Introduction to Clinical Pharmacy
Therapeutics: general strategy - Rheumatic disorders
Arthritic diseade - Pain
Principles of analgesic use
Analgesics and adjuvants - Respiratory diseases
Asthma
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Inflammatory bowel disease
Malabsorption - Liver
Liver failure
Adverse drug reactions on the liver - Central nervous system
Psychiatric diseases
Neurological diseases - Renal diseases
Renal failure
Renal chronic disease - Diabetes mellitus
- Cardiovascular diseases
Hypertension
Heart failure
Ischaemic heart disease
Stroke - Approach to antibiotic therapeutics
- Life stages
Paediatrics
Geriatrics
Suggested Bibliography:
- Wells, B. G., J. T. Dipiro, T. L. Schwinghammer, C. V. Dipiro. (2017) 7th Edition. “Pharmacotherapy Handbook”. McGraw Hill Medical. ISBN-13: 978-0071830133
- Whittlesea, C. & K. Hodson (2017) 6th Edition. “Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics”. Churchill Livingstone.
- Prontuário Terapêutico 11. 2013. 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