Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy

This book has been written keeping in mind the background and understanding of B.Pharm and Pharm.D students of Indian Universities. As the subject matter is yet to be practiced in any large scale in Indian hospitals, theoretical aspects of the subject is written in a simple manner, so as the budding pharmacists can understand the basics of the subject and build upon it when they actually enter into the practice of hospital and clinical pharmacy. As the Pharm.D students are exposed to hospital training during their course, they will find it useful to apply the knowledge gathered from these topics. This book is presented in two parts. Part 1 covers almost all topics of Hospital Pharmacy practice prescribed by various Indian Universities and Pharmacy council of India. Part 2 provides overall view of most of the topics covered under Clinical Pharmacy. 45 Chapters in all are given in this book with model questions at the end of each chapter. Sub-headings of each chapter’s content are given in the contents pages, so that the readers can easily locate the topic of their choice. Contents:Part - I - Hospital Pharmacy, 1: Hospitals – an Introduction, 2: Hospital Pharmacy, 3: Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, 4: Hospital Formulary, 5: Hospital Committees, 6: Therapeutic Guidelines, 7: Pharmacy Procedural Manual, 8: Budget of Hospital Pharmacy, 9: Manufacturing in Hospitals, 10: Total Parenteral Nutrition and Intravenous Admixture, 11: Pre-packing and Repacking in Hospitals, 12: Purchase and Inventory Control, 13: Organization and Management of Drug Store, 14: Drugs Distribution System, 15: Central Sterile Supply Department, 16: Hospital Accessories, 17: Nuclear Pharmacy, 18: Records and Reports, 19: Professional Relations and Practices, PART – II, Clinical Pharmacy, 20: Clinical Pharmacy, 21: Medication History Interview, 22: Medical Abbreviations and Terminologies, 23: Ward Round Participation, 24: Rational Drug Therapy, 25: Pharmacotherapy, 26: Pediatric Pharmacy, 27: Geriatric Pharmacy, 28: Use of Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation, 29: Pharmacogenetics, 30: Patient Compliance, 31: Drug Therapy Review and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, 32: Patient Data Analysis, 33: Drug Utilisation Evaluation and Review, 34: Individualization of Dose and Pharmacist Intervention, 35: Adverse Drug Reactions, 36: Drug Interactions and Drug Induced Diseases, 37: Pharmacovigilance, 38: Pharmaceutical Care, 39: Patient Counselling, 40: Drug Information Center and Role of Pharmacists in Education and Training, 41: Poison Information Center and Treatment of Poison Cases, 42: Communication in Pharmacy and Presentation of Cases, 43: Critical Evaluation of Biomedical Literature, 44: Medication Errors, 45: Clinical Trials. About the Authors: Prof. S. Balasubramanian M.Pharm, [Ph.D] is one of the active senior pharmacy teachers from south Tamil Nadu studied both his undergraduate and post graduate degrees from the prestigious and premier institute of the country Madurai Medical College. He took first rank in his batch of B.Pharm passed out in 1976. He has almost a decade of experience as Pharmaceutical Manufacturing chemist, another decade of experience as a Community Pharmacist in a foreign country and in pharmacy teaching for two decades, ever since he returned from abroad in Dec 1994. Thus he has vast experience in almost all major fields of Pharmacy which makes him unique amog the authors of pharmacy text books. With his hands on first hand practical knowledge with men, machine and material he has written this book, that is bestowed to very few by the almighty. He has to his credit more than 36 publictions in reputed journals. Being an active and versatile personality and an orator, writer and poet, he was elected unopposed, many times, as office bearer of professional associations in Madurai. He is one of the regular contributers to pharmacy journals . Dr.N.Narayanan M.Pharm. Ph.D is one of the eminent teachers in pharmacy who has more than 32 years of experience. He had his undergraduate and post graduate degrees from the reputed institution of temple city-the Madurai Medical College in Tamil Nadu. He has started his carrier as Hospital pharmacist and risen to the top most position of the department, Joint Director of Medical Education [Pharmacy] of Government of Tamilnadu. He has served as a Manufacturing Chemist as well as Analytical chemist in private companies and also as professor of pharmacy in a Government institution of Sultanate of Oman. He has published more than 50 research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals with high impact factors. He has guided 50 M.Pharm students, 22 Ph.D scholars and 2 M.D [Pharmacology] candidates. He was the first principal of College of Pharmacy attached to the prestigious 177 year old Madras Medical College, Chennai and member of Tamilnadu Pharmacy Council, Pharmacy Council of India and almost all professional associations like IPA, IPGA and APTI.