Learning Outcomes
After successful completion of the postgraduate students should be able to:
- understand the mode of action of different drugs in clinical practice
- acquire and embed knowledge on the use, the efficacy, the dosage, the side affects, the interactions and the contraindications of drug use.
- be able to take proper therapeutic decision for the cardiac patient.
Course Content (Syllabus)
- Basic pharmacology
- Research in drug development
- Pre-clinical studies phases I, II and III
- Drugs of the respiratory system
- Management of bleeding in cardiac surgery
- Intravenous and local anesthetics
- Cardiovascular drugs
- Drugs of the central and peripheral nervous system
- Drug interactions - Patient safety - Drug surveillance