Course Description
10-515-173 RESPIRATORY PHARMACOLOGY...examines basic pharmacology principles, drug dosage, and calculations. Medications for inhalation including mucolytics, bronchodilators, and anti-inflammatories. Also includes cardiac drugs, anesthetic drugs, neuromuscular blockers, and antimicrobials. Emphasis is placed on promotion of evidence-based practice using established clinical practice guidelines and published research for its relevance to patient care. (Prerequisite: 10-806-177, General Anatomy & Physiology)
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What will I learn?
- Apply basic pharmacology principles to medication management
- Compare and contrast drug forms, routes of administration and vehicles
- Calculate medication dosage
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of mucolytics, expectorants, surfactants, and antitussives
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of bronchodilators
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of anti-inflammatories, steroidal and non steroidal
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of cardiac drugs, vasodilators, vasoconstrictors, diuretics
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of anesthetics, muscle blockers, analgesics, sedatives, hypnotics, and tranquilizers
- Examine the pharmacodynamics of antimicrobials, antivirals, anti-infectives, and vaccines
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