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19 Nov: Posted slides for intro to cardiovascular pharm, heart failure
(first topic for Exam 4)
18 Nov: Posted Exam 3 from last year (in old exam box at bottom)
Posted key for this year's Exam 2 (click here);
Posted slides for two lectures on Thurs (19 Nov)

 

 

 

Your TAs

Jason Kehrl (jkehrl@umich.edu)
Kadee Luderman (luderman@umich.edu)

Course/exam policies Click here

Text

Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 7th Ed., by R. Lehne (Saunders, 2009)

Schedule
for Fall
2009

University of Michigan Medical School -- Pharmacology 210
Lecture and Exam Schedule, Fall 2009
**** Schedule Subject to Change
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Date, Day

Topic
(number in parens = Lehne chapter)

Who

Slides
(PDF)

SEPTEMBER

Tu
9/8
Course Overview/Policies (revised)

Shlafer

gone

Principles of drug action;
Pharmacokinetics (4)

Th
9/10

Pharmacokinetics (5)

Shlafer

Tu
9/15
Pharmacodynamics:
Mechanisms of drug action (5)
Shlafer gone

Drug interactions, adverse drug effects;
Variations in drug responses; Drug therapy across the lifespan
(6-11)

gone
Th
9/17

Background reading: Principles of Neuropharmacology; Physiology of Peripheral Nervous Systems; Introduction to Autonomic Nervous System (12-14)

Shlafer

gone

Tu
9/22

Muscarinic agonists (14)

Shlafer

gone
Antimuscarinics (14)
gone
Th
9/24
Cholinesterase inhibitors (15)
Shlafer
gone
Shlafer
gone
Sympathomimetics (17-19)

Shlafer

gone

Tu
9/29

Sympathomimetics (cont'd)

Shlafer

gone

OCTOBER
Th
10/1
Sympathomimetics (cont'd) Shlafer gone
Tu
10/6
Adrenergic blockers (17-19)
Last topic for Exam 1
Shlafer gone
Th
10/8
Finish adrenergic blockers
Shlafer
gone
Tu
10/13
Histamine and antihistamines (69) Shlafer
gone
Drug therapy of asthma (74) gone
Local anesthetics (26)
gone

Background Reading: Lehne 20
Intro to CNS Pharmacology;

Sedatives, hypnotics, anxiolytics, alcohol (32, 34, 38)

gone
Wed 10/14
Th
10/15

Antipsychotics (31)

Shlafer

gone
Antidepressants, drugs for bipolar illness
(32, 33)
gone
Fall Study Break Oct 19-20
Th
10/22

Drugs for Parkinson's Disease (21)

Shlafer

gone
Tu
10/27
Anticonvulsants (24)
topic deferred, not on Exam 2
Shlafer
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Th
10/29
Opioid analgesics and antagonists (28)
**LAST TOPIC FOR EXAM #2**
Shlafer
gone
NOVEMBER

Tu
11/3

Antibiotics, other antimicrobials
(Unit XVI) - Part 1

Canman

Yes
Th
11/5

Antibiotics/antimicrobials (continued)
Study Guide

Canman
Part 2

Tu
11/10

Cancer therapy principles, anticancer drugs
(Unit XVII) Study Guide

Canman

Yes

Wed 11/11: Exam #2
Covers all material after Exam 1, up to and including opioids
(i.e., all CNS topics except anticonvulsants) 6 PM

Th
11/12

Treatment of thyroid disorders (57)

Shlafer

Yes
Tu
11/17
Drug therapy of diabetes (56)
Shlafer Yes

Th
11/19

Adrenocorticosteroids (59, 71)

Kehrl

NEW
Sex hormones, oral contraceptives
(60-63)
**Last topic for Exam 3**
Luderman NEW
Tu
11/24
Introduction to cardiovascular pharmacology, review of hemodynamics (42); drugs for heart failure (47) Shlafer NEW

Thanksgiving Break Nov 25-Nov 29

DECEMBER

Tu
12/1
Diuretics (40) Shlafer ---
Th
12/3
Hypertension and its treatment (44-46) Shlafer ---
Tu
12/8

Antihypertensive drugs (continued) Shlafer ---
Antianginal Drugs (50) ---
12/9: Exam #3, 6 PM
Covers antibiotics through all of endocrine pharmacology

Th
12/10

Antianginal Drugs (cont'd) (50)

Shlafer

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Tu
12/15

Lipid-lowering drugs (49)

Shlafer

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Anticoagulant, antiplatelet, and
thrombolytic drugs (51)
Shlafer ---
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Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, acetaminophen (70)

Shlafer ---
Exam 4 - Wednesday Dec. 16, 4 PM in the usual places.
Covers all previously untested material plus Exam 1 autonomics content as announced

 

Exams

Exams from Fall term 2008

Exam 1: Principles, autonomics (2009)

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Exam 2: Histamine, antihistamines, asthma, CNS
gone
Exam 3: Endocrine, cancer, antibiotics, etc. updated

NEW

Exam 4: Cardiovascular, NSAIDs, acetaminophen
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Copyright 2009, M. Shlafer.

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