Clinical Pharmacology & Intro to Prescribing

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Decks in this class (24)

Session 1: Clinical Trials
Definition of a clinical trial,
What is the purpose of a clinical...,
Define efficacy
55  cards
Session 2: Clinical Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Key factors to consider in pharma...,
How might the patient alter the p...,
What is bioavailability
72  cards
Session 3: Hypertension & Heart Failure
Explain how activation of beta1 a...,
Explain how activation of alpha1 ...,
Explain how activation of b1 adre...
80  cards
Session 3: Diuretics & Drugs in Kidney Failure
Renal functions,
Regulatory functions,
Excretory functions
59  cards
Session 4: Pharmacovigilance & Pharmacogenetics
What is pharmacovigilance,
Whos responsible for pharmacovigi...,
What are the two subtypes of adve...
22  cards
Session 4: Reproductive and Post-reproductive Health
What are sex steroids synthesised...,
Briefly explain the sex steroid s...,
Explain the properties of the ste...
36  cards
Session 5: Hyperlipidaemias
Broad functions of cholesterol,
What is ldl,
Function of hdl
57  cards
Session 5: Diabetes
What stimulates insulin secretion,
What is insulin inhibited by,
Role of insulin
79  cards
Session 6: Evidence-Based Medicine
How does biological plausibility ...,
Give examples where biological pl...,
Define evidence based medicine
15  cards
Session 6: Reviews of Evidence
Features of narrative reviews,
Give key features of systematic r...,
Features of systematic reviews
41  cards
Session 7: Antiarrhythmics
Where might you find arrhythmias ...,
When an abnormal impulse is gener...,
An arrhythmia doesnt have to be d...
81  cards
Session 7: Antiplatelet and Fibrinolytic Drugs
Appearane of venous thrombi,
Apperance of arterial thrombi,
Explain the functions of the heal...
60  cards
Session 8: NSAIDs
Briefly explain the production of...,
What else can be arachidonic acid...,
Give examples of prostanoids
67  cards
Session 8: Opioids
What is nociception,
What is pain,
Explain the mechanism behind pain
76  cards
Session 9: Respiratory Pharmacology
What is asthma,
Aims of asthma control,
What should be checked before dec...
65  cards
Session 9: Anaesthesia
Give broad types of anaesthesia,
Types of general anaesthesia,
Give examples of conscious sedation
32  cards
Session 10: Immunosuppression
What is rheumatoid arthritis,
Rheumatoid arthritis pathogenesis,
Clinical criteria to diagnose ra
58  cards
Session 10: Cancer Chemotherapy
What is imatinib used for,
Explain when chemo works in the c...,
Explain the fractional cell kill ...
53  cards
Session 11: Anti-emetics
What is vomiting,
What is the vomiting centre,
What activates the ctz
77  cards
Session 11 - GI Pharmacology
What is gord,
Types of gord,
Symptoms signs of gord
50  cards
Session 12: Antimicrobials
5 main methods of anti microbials,
Explain bactericidal,
Explain bacterostatic
16  cards
Session 12: Anticoagulants
Give common thromboembolic diseases,
Pharmacokinetics of unfractionate...,
How is unfractionated heparin adm...
42  cards
Session 13: Epilepsy
Define seizure,
What happens if you stimulate glu...,
Explain what happens if you stimu...
50  cards
Session 13: Neurology
Clinical features of parkinsonism,
Non motor manifestations of pd,
Features of parkinson down the li...
48  cards

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