Download code/course: phar. 230 (therapeutics i )

UNIVERSITY OF BELIZE
Faculty of Nursing, Health Sciences and Social Work
Department of Pharmacy
CODE/COURSE: PHAR. 230 (THERAPEUTICS I )
CREDITS: 4 CREDIT HOURS
SCHEDULE: Tuesdays and Thursdays; 5:00 – 6:50pm
LECTURER: Mr. Eugene C. Echegi
TEXT REQUIRED:
[1] Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 38th
Edition, Lawrence M. Tierney, Jr. Et al
[2] Applied Therapeutics: The Clinical Use of Drugs:
Mary Ann Kode-Kimble Et al 1992
[3] Merck Manual – Reference text
COURSE DESCRIPTION: A study of the management of some of the major
diseases and medical conditions prevalent in Belize, and its neighbouring countries.
Students will need to combine information gained in Pharmacology, Physiology and
Microbiology, so as to gain further insight into their etiology, presentation and
complications of the conditions studied. Emphasis is placed on both drug and nondrug therapy with the aim of developing the student’s appreciation of rational and cost
effective drug usage.
RATIONAL: To develop the student’s knowledge so as to prepare them to become
effective and efficient members of the health care team.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
1. To develop the students ability to make educated recommendations for costeffective therapy.
2. To provide the working knowledge needed to integrate diagnosing, prescribing
and the role of the pharmacist.
3. To encourage students to be sensitive to the needs of the patients: ethically,
legally and medically.
4. To develop a professional working relationship between the pharmacist,
physician, nurse and other members of the health care team.
COURSE CONTENT:
1) Body Fluids and Electrolyte Disorders Disease
a. Distribution of Body Fluid
b. Typical Fluid Fluxes
c. Electrolytes
d. Assessment of Fluid/Electrolyte Balance
e. Fluid & Electrolyte Replacement Therapy
f. Electrolyte and Dextrose Content of Various IV Fluids
2) Cardiovascular Disorders
a. Angina Pectoris
b. Hypertension
c. Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
d. Myocardial Infarction (MI)
e. Artherosclerosis
f. Hyperlipidemia
3) Endocrine Disorders
a. Diabetes mellitus
b. Hormone synthesis and regulation
c. Laboratory parameters
d. Hyperthyroidism
e. Hypothyroidism
4) Respiratory Disorders
a. Disorders of the upper Airways:
 Asthma
 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
 Allergic Bronchopulmonary mycosis
 Bronchietctesis
 Cystic Fibrosis
 Bronchiolitis Obliterans
b. Disorders of the Lower Airways:
 Tracheal obstruction
 Bronchial Obstruction
 Right middle lobe syndrom
5) Infectious Disorders
a. Bacterial Infections
b. Fungal Infections
c. Viral Infections
d. Helminthic Infections
e. Other Parasitic Infections
6) Conception Contraception
a. The female menstrual cycle
b. Conception
c. Contraception
7) Course Review
CLASS POLICIES:
Students are responsible for all notes, tests and assignments.
No make up quizzes will be allowed.
No prior notice will be given before a quiz
A week’s notice will be given before a test
Excuses due to illness must be made before the test begins.
Unexcused absence from a test will mean an automatic zero.
Five points will be deducted for each day a paper or assignment is late, up to 8
(working) days.
Passing grade for quizzes, tests and exams is 75%
GRADING:
Semester Work
 Test - 40% (at least 3)
 Quizzes – 10% (at least 2)
 Term paper and attendance – 10% (at least one (1) Term paper)
Final Examination: 40% (comprehensive)
CLASS RULES: Proper Dressing (Formal); No eating; No chattering; No
phone calls, and reception during classes; No walking about; No playing, we
are in serious business – moulding your future!!!
Thanks for anticipated understanding and co-operation.
It is your responsibility to come prepared to receive the lecture, and to ask
questions, and clear any doubts or misunderstanding during your personal
studies at home. You are expected, and urged to read the topics before coming
for the lectures. This will enable you to understand the lectures better, and to
follow easier.
I wish you a wonderful, vibrant and successful semester. Congratulations in
advance!!!
Eugene C. Echegi
Preamble: As medical sciences continue to broaden; as diseases continue to
present complexities; as physicians continue to focus on specific fields; as
resistance to drugs by different microbes increases; as new analytical methods
becomes available, and highly potent drugs becomes isolated from crude
sources, with attendant increase in drug interactions; as new methods and
machines take up certain previous roles of the pharmacist: We have to reevaluate our responsibilities to the patient and the health sector towards finding
more useful role that will enable us to be most effective and useful to the health
care team especially in an era where patient care is considered the primary
focus of every health personnel: Hence the entrance, importance and new
focus on therapeutics. It may be logical therefore to consider it the most
important course for today’s pharmacist.