Provide the student with the basics of pharmacology and toxicology necessary for the performance of the role of optometrist
Intermediate targets:
• Know what medications are and the role they have in the therapeutic
• Understand the ways through which drugs modify the state of health of the patient
• Understand the factors that can alter the response to a drug
• Know the risks associated with the use of drugs
• Know the general principles of pharmacotherapy
• Know the toxicological and pharmacological profiles of the main ophthalmic drugs
Part I
Pharmacokinetics
Pharmacodynamics
Part II
• Drugs used in the field of ophthalmology
Part I
Pharmacokinetics
- The student at the end of the course will be able to describe:
• the main routes of drug administration and for each describe the main features, advantages, disadvantages and contraindications
• processes of drug distribution in the body
• main processes of drug biotransformation
• major routes of elimination of drugs
• factors that can alter the elimination of drugs and the clinical consequences and therapeutic
• Describe the main pharmacokinetic parameters
• Principles of pediatric pharmacology and geriatric
Pharmacodynamics:
- The student at the end of the course will be able to describe:
• Receptors and drug-receptor interaction
• Receptor Agonists and Antagonists
• Signal transduction
• Desensitization and tachyphylaxis
-Cholinergic and adrenergic transmission
Part II
• Drugs for glaucoma
• Drugs for AMD: anti-VEGF
• Drugs for ocular pain
• Mydriatics and miotics
• Antibiotics used in ophthalmology
• Anti-inflammatory drugs
• Local anesthetics
• Lacrimal substitutes and viscoelastic substances
Clarck et al. Pharmacology. Lippincott