Semester/Year: 3/2

Lec.+lab/week: (3+0) hours

The course provides the student with pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic and pharmacotherapeutic knowledge of drugs helping in safe and effective pharmacy practice. This course contains drugs acting on central nervous system which includes Analgesic narcotic drugs, hypnotic and sedative drugs, Tranquilizer drugs, and CNS stimulants. In addition, this course covers preanesthetic medications, local and general anesthetics, drugs acting on autonomic nervous system which consist of sympathomimetic drug, sympatholytic drugs, direct acting and indirect acting parasympathetic system and cholinergic blocking drugs. Moreover, the course covers non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, rheumatoid arthritis drugs, anti-gout agents and anti infective agents such as antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral drugs.