The course of pharmacology is designed to teach the responsible use of drugs as a relevant issue during the professional activity in physiotherapy. In particular, in the choice of the drug to be used, it must consider, beyond symptoms, other patients’ characteristics including, age, gender, concomitant pathologies and therapies, previous history of diseases, etc.
The course is divided in two sections: the first deals with pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics focusing on the evidence that the interaction between drugs and the body can significantly vary according with personal physiological and pathological parameters.
The second part illustrates the main features of the classes of drugs more frequently used in a patient during its rehabilitation (therapy of inflammation, pain, etc).
Finally, the abuse of drugs in sport for doping purposes will also be addressed, focusing on severe side effects (acute and delayed).
Teaching of pharmacology will be performed by frontal lessons
General pharmacology:
Special pharmacology
The text which is best recommended to integrate the topics that have been addressed in lectures is the following:
"Lippincott's illustrated reviews: Pharmacology", Authors: Michelle A. Clark, Richard Finkel, Jose A. Rey, Karen Whalen. EDS. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Morever, the slides shown during the frontal lessons will be made available to the students.
Ricevimento: As long as the COVID19 emergency will not allow personal receptions, students will be received on the platform microsoft teams code 3f12f6. Student reception will be held at ex inst. of Pharmacology groungd floor. Viale Benedetto XV, 2 phone +39 0103538884. cell 3291484399. email: stefano.thellung@unige.it
Ricevimento: by appintment only by e-mail: francesca.mattioli@unige.it
The exam of pharmacology will be perfomed as an interview
The interview will evaluated the ability of the student to place a given pharmacological class within a therapy, in which pharmacotherapy must be adjusted according with the physiological and pathological characteristics of patients.
