Teaching code

4S000902

Teacher

Riccardo Roni

Credits

2

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

BIO/14 - PHARMACOLOGY

Period

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

Lessons timetable Moodle Seminars

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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 professional 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 how to consult sources of information on drugs; know the main classifications of drugs; know the fate of drugs in the body and the 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 local anesthetics, analgesic and anti-inflammatory drugs used for pain control, drugs that interfere with coagulation and platelet aggregation; know the principles of action of antibacterial drugs, the criteria for their correct use, the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance.

Program

Development of new drugs and clinical research; sources of information on the effectiveness of drugs and guidance on their use; 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 and anti-inflammatory drugs, local anesthetics, antithrombotic and anticoagulant drugs. Principles of therapy and antibacterial prophylaxis, correct use of antibiotics and strategies for containing the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance. Classification of antibiotics according to the spectrum of action.

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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.