OPT 6318 General Pharmacology
Three hours of lecture per week. Basic principles of pharmacology to include drug absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, dosage, action and routes of administration. Pharmacokinetic principles. Pharmacodynamic principles. Physiology and pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system and the drugs which affect this system. A survey of medications and their actions, indications and contraindications will be addressed to include systemic, topical, ocular autonomic medications, anti-infective, anesthetic, anti-inflammatory and chemotherapeutic agents. Pharmacological treatment of heart failure, hypertension, angina, arrhythmias, neoplastic disease, AIDS and other immunocompromised associated diseases. Antimicrobial therapy, synergy, antagonism. Antibiotic selection. Administration of ocular pharmaceutical agents.
Offered
Fall