Main description:

This book elaborately covers practicals in pharmacy and experimental pharmacology with due emphasis on therapeutics to develop crystal-clear concepts in the mind of reader, regarding various dosage forms and how drugs effect living systems. It also covers topics on clinical skills, for example, setting up IV lines, therapeutic drug monitoring, dose-calculations, concept of P-drug and essential drugs to develop mind set-up for rational and good practice in medicine. This book contains generous amount of figures and illustrations to build concepts of pharmacology, and questions which are fully explained and answered. This feature helps the readers to assess themselves instantly and also to know correct answers, thus proving to be a promising learning tool. This book can be very well utilized by medical students, dental students, pharmacy students and those seeking future in drug research and development.

Contents:

SECTION-1: Working in Experimental Lab

1. Common Laboratory Animals

2. Some Basic Equipment

3. Starting an Experiment

4. Effects of Drugs on Isolated Heart of Frog

5. Experiments with Isolated Intestinal Smooth Muscle

6. Experiments on Rabbit-Eye

SECTION-2: Working in Pharmacy Lab

7. Introduction

8. Metrology [Weights and Measures]

9. Prescription Writing

10. Dosage Forms

11. Pharmacy Exercises

Exercise 1: Carminative Mixture

Exercise 2: Sodium Salicylate Mixture

Exercise 3: Expectorant Mixture

Exercise 4: Astringent Mixture

Exercise 5: Diaphoretic Mixture

Exercise 6: Condy's Lotion

Exercise 7: Calamine Lotion

Exercise 8: Castor Oil Emulsion

Exercise 9: Oral Rehydration Salt (ORS)

Exercise 10: Siedlitz Powder

Exercise 11: Sulphur Ointment

Exercise 12: Whitfield's Ointment

Exercise 13: Boric Acid Ear Drops

12. Instruments Commonly used in Pharmacy Lab

SECTION-3: Learning Skills

(In accordance with syllabus prescribed by Medical Council of India)

13. Starting Intravenous Lines

14. Posology

15. Test for Penicillin Hypersensitivity

16. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring

17. Essentials of Clinical Trial

18. Sources of Drug Information-how to Retrieve Information

19. Critical Appraisal of Drug Promotional Literature

20. Drug Package Inserts

21. ADR Monitoring-Pharmacovigilance

22. P-Drug Concept

23. Essential Drug List

SECTION-4: Appendices

Appendix 1: Informed Consent Form Template

Appendix 2: Outline of a Typical Study Protocol for Clinical Study

Appendix 3: ADR Form

Appendix 4: Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PVPI)

Appendix 5: WHO Model List of Essential Medicines 17th List 2011

Appendix 6: National List of Essential Medicines of India 2011

Appendix 7: Interesting Historical Facts that led to Development of Autonomic Nervous System

Appendix 8: Question Bank