Class Clinical Pharmacy

Clinical Pharmacy is an integral part of the Pharmaceutical Department activity and is a challenge for the pharmaceutical profession. The pharmacist began to focus his activity on the patient and not just on the medicine. Thus, it is responsible for identifying, preventing and resolving Drug Related Problems (PRMs). In order to improve patient care, it applies its technical and scientific knowledge to the assessment and identification of pharmacotherapeutic problems, suggesting changes to it. Identifies and addresses deficiencies in patient knowledge and education regarding their disease and pharmacological therapy. It enables the pharmacist to actively participate in improving adherence to therapy and contributing to beneficial health outcomes

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Clinical Pharmacy. Concepts. Basic Functions in Clinical Pharmacy: Selection of medicines. Committee on Pharmacy and Therapeutics. National Medicine Formulary. Drug distribution. Medication information. Interpretation of laboratory data and clinical significance. Pharmacist´s intervention (topic and clinical cases): Oncology. Breast cancer. Preparation of cytotoxics. Hematology. Neonatology. Chronic kidney disease. Specialized Nutritional Support - Parenteral and enteral nutrition. Preparation of PN in a real work context. Cardiac insufficiency. Dyslipidemia. Rational use of antibiotics. Pharmacovigilance. Special populations: geriatrics, pediatrics and pregnant women. Clinical pharmacokinetics. Clinical Trials. Elaboration and presentation of group work related to the topics under study.

Learning enhanced by know-how: elaboration of clinical cases carried out in a group, in a real work context. Preparation of parenteral nutrition and cytotoxics - in a real work context.

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