Pharmacology for Health Professionals Lecture Notes

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These are full lecture notes for the subject Pharmacology for Health Professionals (PHRM90002) from Semester 1, 2020. Topics included (every lecture): - Pharmacodynamics - Pharmacokinetics 1 - Drug absorption and distribution - Pharmacokinetics 2 - Drug metabolism an excretion - Introduction to the pharmacology of the nervous system - Pharmacology of the autonomic nervous system - Adrenergic & Cholinergic - Pharmacodynamics & Pharmacokinetics - why should you care? - Intro to cardiovascular pharmacology - Drugs for the treatment of hypertension - Lipid lowering drugs - Drugs for the treatment of ischaemic heart disease - Drugs for the treatment of heart failure & arrhythmia - Drugs that modulate haemostasis & thrombosis - Anti-inflammatory drugs 1 & 2 - Drugs affecting the respiratory system- Asthma & COPD - Drugs used in gastrointestinal disorders - Drugs used to treat diabetes - Obesity: a multi-targeted treatment approach - Drugs for the treatment of neurodegenerative disease - Drugs of abuse - Drugs used to treat depression and bipolar disorder - Anxiolytic & hypnotic drugs - Antiepileptic drugs - Drugs for pain management - Antipsychotic drugs - Drugs used for CNS disorders - Chemotherapeutic approaches to cancer - General principles of antimicrobial therapy - anti-bacterial & anti-viral