Course: Pharmacology

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Course title Pharmacology
Course code FZS/FRM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements Course does not contain work placement
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Ondrejček Pavel, PharmDr. Ph.D.
Course content
Lectures: 1) Characteristics of the field, definitions of drugs, drugs, drug names, pharmaceutical forms, MS. lékopis; drug prescription and prescription; general pharmacology - pharmacokinetics; importance for drug administration, drug delivery methods, pharmacodynamics; mechanism of drug effects, types of therapy; drug dosing; drug interaction, drug dependence 2) Drugs affecting the CNS - review; general anesthetics, hypnotics, antiepileptics; review of psychopharmaceuticals and drugs for degenerative diseases; drugs used in pain therapy; pharmacological procedures for affecting pain; drugs affecting the peripheral nervous system; local anesthetics, myorelaxants 3) Drugs affecting the heart and blood vessels; antihypertensive drugs, cardiac insufficiency drugs and other groups; diuretics; blood substitutes, electrolyte infusion solutions 4) Overview of drugs affecting the respiratory system; antiasthmatics, antitussives, expectorants; review of drugs affecting the gastrointestinal tract; spasmolytics, antacids, antiulcerosis, etc. 5) Drugs affecting the endocrine system; insulin; oral antidiabetics; steroid hormones; antibiotics and anti-infectious chemotherapeutics; antiseptics and disinfectants; an overview of anticancer drugs; erectile dysfunction, medicines used in ophthalmology and medicines in special groups of patients - ie during pregnancy, breastfeeding, in children and in old age 6) Selected issues of toxicology - basic concepts, the mechanism of action of poisons; diagnostics including basics of chemical examination methods in toxicology and first aid in intoxication, antidotes, inorganic and organic poisons

Learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture
Learning outcomes
The course is designed as theoretical. It provides basic information from pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, defines the term drug, its forms and dosages, routes of administration, interactions. It acquaints students with groups of medicines, their forms and principles of administration, addictive substances and medicines containing them and their effects on the human body. It provides information on the interaction of medicinal products and the human body.
Students obtain knowledge in given course in accordance with requirements and course programme.
Prerequisites
Preconditions are frased in the annotation of the course and in the curriculum of the studying programme.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral exam

Credit: - self-study, - 80% attendance at lectures. Exam: - oral examination: two questions (1st question is from the field of general pharmacology, 2nd question is from the field of specialized pharmacology); basic knowledge of the issue, basic classification of groups of medicinal products, basic mechanisms of action, most common adverse reactions, contraindications and interactions are required).
Recommended literature
  • GUCKÝ, Tomáš. Toxikologie omamných a psychotropních látek. Olomouc: Unicerzita Palackého v Olomouci, 2015. ISBN 978-80-244-4537-3.
  • LINHART, Igor. Toxikologie: Interakce škodlivých látek s živými organismy, jejich mechanismy, projevy a důsledky. Praha: VŠCHT, 2014. ISBN 978-80-7080-877-1.
  • MARTÍNKOVÁ, Jiřina. Farmakologie pro studenty zdravotnických oborů. Praha: Grada, 2018. ISBN 978-80-2474-157-4.
  • PERLÍK, František. Základy farmakologie. Praha: Galén, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7262-759-2.
  • SEZIMOVÁ, Hana, K. MALACHOVÁ a Zuzana RYBKOVÁ. Toxikologie a genotoxikologie. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2015. ISBN 978-80-7464-740-6.
  • SLÍVA, Jiří a Martin VOTAVA. Farmakologie: Lékařské repetitorium. Praha: Triton, 2011. ISBN 978-80-7387-500-8.


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