Teaching code

4S007272

Teacher

Riccardo Roni

Credits

1

Also offered in courses:

• Foundations and methods of treatment in psychiatry - FARMACOLOGIA GENERALE of the course Bachelor's degree in Psychiatric Rehabilitation Techniques

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

BIO/14 - PHARMACOLOGY

Period

1 SEMESTRE PROFESSIONI SANITARIE dal Oct 1, 2021 al Dec 23, 2021.

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Learning outcomes

General objectives:
Provide the student with the fundamental knowledge to understand the actions of drugs on the physio-pathological processes of patients; ability to integrate the effects generated by drugs into one's own physiotherapeutic activity
Specific objectives:
Know the principles that guide the development of new drugs, the phases of research and the appropriate and safe use of drugs in current practice; know the main classifications of drugs; know the fate of drugs in the body and their mode of action, deepening the principles of pharmaco-kinetics and pharmaco-dynamics; know the relationship between dose and effect of drugs; know the mechanism of action, therapeutic and adverse effects of analgesic, anti-inflammatory and neurological drugs used in pain therapy.

Program

Development of new drugs and clinical research; sources of information on drug efficacy; adverse drug reactions and benefit-risk ratio; polytherapy and drug interactions, the concept of tolerance and drug addiction; use of drugs in current practice with in-depth study of the concepts of therapeutic appropriateness and pharmacovigilance.
Pharmacokinetics: following the fate of drugs in the body by describing the phases of absorption, distribution, metabolism and elimination; study of the concept of bioavailability and main pharmaco-kinetic parameters; characteristics, advantages and disadvantages of the different routes of administration.
Pharmacodynamics: sites of action of drugs. classification of receptors and drug-receptor relationship, dose and posology, dose-effect relationship. Biological drugs.
Special Pharmacology: main drug classification criteria; In-depth study of the mechanism of action and the therapeutic and adverse effects of analgesic drugs, steroidal and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, neurological drugs used in pain therapy and neuromuscular active drugs.

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Examination Methods

Written exam consisting of multiple choice tests. Knowledge related to the topics covered during the course will be investigated, both for the general and systematic pharmacology part. Some questions will refer to precise definitions and concepts, while others will imply greater ability to connect the topics. The score of the individual answers will therefore be weighted.