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Emergency - module of Pharmacology
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Pharmacology
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Academic year 2023/2024
- Course ID
- SCB0230A
- Teacher
- Giovanni Nicolao Berta (Lecturer)
- Modular course
- Emergency (SCB0230)
- Year
- 6th year
- Teaching period
- First semester
- Type
- Basic
- Credits/Recognition
- 1
- Course disciplinary sector (SSD)
- BIO/14 - pharmacology
- Delivery
- Formal authority
- Language
- English
- Attendance
- Mandatory
- Type of examination
- Written and oral
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Sommario del corso
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Course objectives
The aim of the Couse is the acquisition of the main concepts related to the principal drugs utilized in emergency, including pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic characteristics, indications, side effects and toxicity and drug interactions.
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Results of learning outcomes
At end of this course, Students must have an appropriate knowledge about:
- categories of drugs commonly used in emergency, their therapeutic indications, side effects and toxicity;
- pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetic properties, clinical relapses of the major categories of drugs of emergency;
- the major classes of patients in whom same drugs are contraindicated or should be used with caution;
- categories of drugs that could interact with the main drugs of interest.
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Course delivery
The course includes eight hours of frontal lectures.
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Learning assessment methods
The assessment consist in a written test by Moodle: 15 multiple-choice questions, one or more correct (non-correct) answers. One point for each correct quiz, -0.33 for each incorrect quiz. It lasts 30 minutes.
N.B.: In addiction check the general assessment methods in "Emergency": https://www.medinto.unito.it/do/corsi.pl/Show?_id=0la6
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Program
During the lessons principal emergency drugs will be described; e.g.: Acetazolamide, Acetylcisteine, Acyclovir, Adenosine, Adrenaline, Alteplase, Aminophylline, Amiodarone, Atropine, Clopidogrel, Dalteparin, Dantrolene, Dexametasone, Diazepam, Flumazenil, Digoxin, Antidigital antibodies, Dopamine, Dobutamine, Fenoldopam, Furosemide, Haloperidol, Ipratropium, Labetalolo, Latulose, Lepidudine, Lidocaine, Loperamide, Mannitolo, Metoclopramide, Morphine, Naloxone, Neostigmina, Noradrenaline, Protamine, Salbutamol, Sodium valproate, Vasopressin, Terlipressin, Tranexamic acid, Vitamine K.
Suggested readings and bibliography
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- Slides and learning material will be provided by the lecturer.
- Laurence Brunton; Bjorn Knollmann, Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics.
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Note
Students with DSA or disabilities are kindly requested to take note of the reception services and support services offered by the University of Turin, and in particular of the procedures required for exam support.
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