MEDICATION PREPARATION FOR INFUSION

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in Biomedical Laboratory techniques
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2022/2023
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2024/2025
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Seat of the course: 
Varese - Università degli Studi dell'Insubria
Credits: 
1
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
12
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Lesson (12 hours)

Oral exam

Assessment: 
Voto Finale

The Hospital Pharmacy service: general information, Compounding Center, regulatory aspects and technical standards.

Antiblastic Drugs Unit: management of antineoplastic therapy, the role of the Biomedical Laboratory Technician in the preparation of oncological therapies.

The sterile galenic laboratory: artificial nutrition in adults and in neonatology, sterile preparations, pain therapy.

1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Biomedical Laboratory Technician in the hospital pharmacy
1.2 Numbers in oncology
1.3 Principles of chemoterapy
1.4 Principles of antitumor chemoterapy
1.5 Story of antitumor chemoterapy
1.6 New therapeutic approaches in oncology

2. THE HOSPITAL PHARMACY SERVICE
2.1 The Hospital Pharmacy service: general information
2.2 Compounding Center
2.2.1 Definition of “pharmaceutical compounding”
2.2.2 Compounding Center and quality
2.2.3 Validation process of the galenic production process
2.3 Regulatory aspects and technical standards
2.3.1 The rules of galenic preparation
2.3.2 “Good manufacturing practice in pharmacy”
2.4 Reorganization of Clinical Galenic Laboratories into a Compounding Center: example of a field project

3. ANTIBLASTIC DRUGS UNIT
3.1 Because it was born Antiblastic Drugs Unit
3.2 Management of antineoplastic therapy: prescription, preparation and administration
3.3 The role of the Biomedical Laboratory Technician in the preparation of oncological therapies
3.4 Biological drugs and their use in oncohematology
3.5 Hospital management of experimental drugs

4. THE STERILE GALENIC LABORATORY
4.1 Artificial nutrition in adults
4.2 Artificial nutrition in neonatology
4.3 Sterile preparations (external use): eye drops, solutions
4.4 Sterile preparations (intravenous use): antibiotics, antifungals
4.5 Pain therapy: elastomer blends
4.6 Single-dose syringes set up
4.7 The not sterile galenic laboratory

The teaching is proposed through frontal lessons, conducted by the teacher with the use of support materials (slides).

For appointment requests, the teacher can be contacted via email (chiara.menegazzo@uninsubria.it)

Professors

MENEGAZZO CHIARA