Enrollment year
2015/2016
Academic discipline
BIO/14 (PHARMACOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
(02/10/2017 - 19/01/2018)
Lesson hours
8 lesson hours
Prerequisites
Follow Pharmacokinetic lessons or have pharmacokinetic knowledge.
Learning outcomes
The course's objective is understanding the use of pharmacokinetic drug monitoring in choosing the correct dose regimen in the individual patient.
Course contents
Therapeutic drug monitoring, definition. Therapeutic ranges and reference ranges. TDM procedure, assay methods. Examples of drugs monitored. Theoretical background needed to make clinically useful TDM. Individual therapeutic concentration. Example of drug with non-linear kinetics.
Teaching methods
Presentations (PowerPoint) front-facing lectures project on-screen and insights using the blackboard.
Reccomended or required readings
Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics (Laurence Brunton, Bruce Chabner, Bjorn Knollman, authors), Twelfth Edition, New York McGraw-Hill, 2011
L.M. Fuccella, E. Perucca, C. Sirtori, Farmacologia Clinica. UTET 2006
Assessment methods
Written examination with open questions on topics discussed during lessons. Graphics is emphasized: the student must know how to draw plasma concentration - time curves, etc.
Further information
The lecturer will provide .pdf presentations and other study materials of the topics discussed.
It is also available on request for explanations to groups or individual students by appointment.
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