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Organized to reflect the course sequence in many pharmacology courses and in integrated curricula, the guide covers the important concepts students need to know about the science of pharmacology and its application to clinical practice. This edition has been extensively updated to provide expanded coverage of transporters, pharmacogenomics, and new drugs
The perfect preparation for USMLE Step 1--or any pharmacology board exam--this unique Q&A-packed review covers every aspect of the subject.
* Ideal preparation for the USMLE Step 1
* Indispensable for course review and exams
* Designed to complement any standard medical pharmacology textbook
* Inside: complete, up-to-date core review of pharmacology, with more than 1000 USMLE-type questions with answers and explanations, referenced to the leading pharmacology text, Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
The best pharmacology review you can find, Katzung & Trevor's Pharmacology: Examination & Board Review features:
* Up-to-date, student-friendly core guide to pharmacology, from the authors of the leading text in the field
* Concise review of autonomic, cardiovascular, smooth muscle, CNS, blood, anti-inflammatory, endocrine, and chemotherapeutic drugs and drug actions
* New chapter on botanicals (herbal medications) and nutritional supplements, with questions and answers
* New Skill Keeper features - help students recall important principles discussed in earlier chapters and integrate drug information
* All chapters rigorously updated with the latest drug information and references
* More than 1000 USMLE-type questions-almost 3 times more than any other pharmacology review
* Clinical vignette-type questions and case studies
* All the practical tools, high-yield study aids, and test strategies you need to score well on pharmacology questions on the USMLE
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Interventional pain therapy includes control of procedural pain by the traditional methods used for acute pain control including oral, transdermal, intravenous (IV), and intramuscular (IM) delivery of pharmaceuticals. It also includes minimally invasive delivery of pain medications by other routes such as intrathecal, epidural, intraarticular, intraarterial, or paraganglionic. In the case of the neuropathic pain, interventional techniques can be used to deliver medications to the peripheral or central nervous systems to interrupt a positive feedback system for pain, ablate nerve axons or ganglia, alter receptors, or to simply provide temporary relief of pain. In very specific instances, medications to eliminate the nociceptive stimulus can be effectively administered by interventional radiology techniques. Several examples would include ozone in the treatment of degenerative disk disease, methyl-methacrylate treatment of compression fractures, radioactive strontium to treat bone metastases, or radioactive yttrium-90 to treat painful liver tumors. Because of space limitations, we will concentrate on the pharmacology of the two most commonly employed classes of analgesics: nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and opioids.
Clinical pharmacology is "that discipline that teaches, does research, frames policy, gives information and advice about the actions and proper uses of medicines in humans and implements that knowledge in clinical practice".[1][2] Clinical pharmacology is inherently a translational discipline underpinned by the basic science of pharmacology, engaged in the experimental and observational study of the disposition and effects of drugs in humans, and committed to the translation of science into evidence-based therapeutics.[3] It has a broad scope, from the discovery of new target molecules to the effects of drug usage in whole populations.[4] The main aim of clinical pharmacology is to generate data for optimum use of drugs and the practice of 'evidence-based medicine'.
Clinical pharmacologists have medical and scientific training that enables them to evaluate evidence and produce new data through well-designed studies. Clinical pharmacologists must have access to enough patients for clinical care, teaching and education, and research. Their responsibilities to patients include, but are not limited to, detecting and analysing adverse drug effects and reactions, therapeutics, and toxicology including reproductive toxicology, perioperative drug management, and psychopharmacology.
The development of receptor theory at the start of the 20th century and later developments led to better understanding of how medicines act and the development of many new medicines that are both safe and effective. Expansion of the scientific principles of pharmacology and clinical pharmacology continues today.[9][7]
Program:
1 Concept of psychotropic drug.
2 Pharmacological activity of psychotropic drugs. a) Access of drugs to the central nervous system; b) Mechanisms of action at the neuronal level; c) Variability in the response to psychotropic drugs: desensitization, tolerance, physical and psychological dependence; d) Pharmacogenetics.
3 Main classes of psychotropic drugs: sedative-anxiolytics, antipsychotics, antimanic, antidepressants, psychostimulants (cocaine and congeners), psychodysleptics (psychotomimetic).
4 Neuropsychopharmacology of morphine and opiates.
5 Drug-induced behavioural neurotoxicology
Attendance at seminars is mandatory. Active participation in seminars, independent home preparation and elaboration of assigned tasks, completion of progress tests, and a final credit test are required for the credit to be awarded. The student can obtain credit in pharmacology in one regular and two corrective terms at the end of the semester.
Successful completion of a computer test and oral examination. The computer test consists of 50 randomly generated questions that have 4 possible answers, of which only 1 is correct. To successfully pass the test, you need to get 35 or more points (min. 70 % success rate). For the oral examination, the student draws 3 questions, one from general and two from special pharmacology. The list of exam questions is published in advance and is available for download in the SIS.
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