PHARMACOLOGY
No requirements
During the course the student must acquire the main principles of pharmacology, internal medicine and hygiene.
Pneumonia, COPD, Asthma, Gastroesophageal reflux disease, Liver cirrhosis, Acute and chronic pancreatitis, Hematology in general iron deficiency anemia
General coagulation Hemophilia and thrombocytopenia
Arterial hypertension Diabetes mellitus
Hyperthyroidism Hypothyroidism
Drugs acting on the cholinergic system
* Muscarinic agonists. Muscarinic antagonists. Reversible cholinesterase inhibitors and
irreversible.
* Drugs active on neuromuscular plaque and autonomous ganglia.
Drugs acting on the adrenergic system
* Catecholamines, sympathomimetic drugs and adrenergic receptor antagonists
Anti-inflammatory drugs:
* Anti-Inflammatory type nonsteroidal (NSAID)
* Corticosteroids
Neuropsychopharmacology:
Opioid analgesics; Local anesthetics; General anesthetics; Sedative-hypnotics; used drugs
in the treatment of depression, psychosis and delusions; antiepileptic; used drugs
in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases
Chemotherapeutic antibiotics:
General: mechanisms of action and resistance. General strategy in the use of antibiotics
chemotherapy.
Sulfa drugs, trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole; Quinolones and fluoroquinolones, nitrofurans;
Penicillins, cephalosporins; Aminoglycosides.
Antimicrobial agents inhibitors of protein synthesis;
viral Chemotherapy
anticancer chemotherapy:
Alkylating agents, Antimetabolites, Alkaloids, Antibiotics, Hormones
Drugs acting on the apparatus gastrointestinal:
Prokinetics and antiemetics, antidiarrheals, laxatives, drugs used in the treatment of
peptic ulcer and in the control of gastric acid secretion
General concepts of public health, hygiene and epidemiology: health concept, current epidemiological scenario and classification of diseases; public health tools: epidemiology, statistics, health management; prevention and fields of application [2h]
* Epidemiology and epidemiological methodology: epidemiological measures; observational studies, trials, systematic reviews and meta-analyses; bias and confounding [2h]
* Epidemiology and prevention of communicable diseases: (i) risk factors, sources and reservoirs of infection, mode of transmission; (ii) population interventions: vaccination (planning, real and perceived effectiveness, disinformation, vaccination coverage), passive immunoprophylaxis, chemoprophylaxis, disinfection and sterilization, health surveillance and notification; (iii) interventions in care facilities: planning and organization; procedures for the prevention of assistance-related infections (hand washing, use of dpi, instrumentation management, environment); (iv) management of medical waste; outline of environmental hygiene and food hygiene [6h]
* Epidemiology and prevention of non-communicable diseases: (i) risk factors, assessment of intervention priorities (effect, impact, modifiability); (ii) primary and tertiary prevention interventions - health promotion, health education, ed. therapeutic: specific interventions (smoking, alcohol, diet - nutrition hygiene, physical activity, social factors); methodology for health education [2h]; (iii) secondary prevention interventions - screening: criteria, methodology, specific examples, current and new fields of application; (iv) risk assessment: applications of risk scores in public health, new biomarkers and ethical aspects [6h]
* The health system: (i) evolution, funding systems, health economy bases; (ii) healthcare planning and organization, applications (evidence based practice, risk management, case management, quality of care) in primary care and secondary facilities; (iii) exercise, evidence based practice: use of bibliographic databases [4h]
C. Rugarli Systematic internal medicine Ed. Masson
PHARMACOLOGY - BASIC PRINCIPLES AND THERAPEUTIC APPLICATIONS. F.Rossi, V. Cuomo, C.Riccardi, Edizioni Minerva Medica
Hygiene for health professions. Ricciardi G, Ed. Idelson-Gnocchi, 2014