Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy

About this book

Hospital & Clinical Pharmacy takes the D.Pharma Second Year student inside the hospital — both the pharmacy that supplies it and the clinical pharmacist who works with the medical team. Written strictly as per the PCI Education Regulation 2020 (ER20-25T), it follows the official syllabus so what you study is exactly what your university examines.

The hospital-pharmacy half covers the definition and organisation of hospital pharmacy, Good Pharmacy Practice and NABH accreditation, hospital committees (Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, hospital formulary, infection control and antimicrobial resistance), supply chain and inventory control (drug lists, purchasing, EOQ/reorder levels, cold chain, FEFO/FIFO, expiry and cytotoxic disposal), drug distribution systems, compounding and IV admixture services, radiopharmaceuticals and computer applications. The clinical-pharmacy half covers clinical pharmacy practice and the daily activities of a clinical pharmacist (ward rounds, treatment-chart review, ADR monitoring, medication history, patient counselling), pharmaceutical care and medication therapy management, the interpretation of clinical laboratory tests, poisoning and poison information, pharmacovigilance, and medication errors and drug interactions (including LASA drugs and Tall-man lettering).

Everything is explained in simple, clear English so students can connect hospital systems with patient care, and at 150 pages the book keeps the whole syllabus in one place.

Authored by Dr. Rahul Trivedi (Professor, Sumandeep Vidhyapeeth, Vadodara) and Dr. Narendra Silawat (Professor of Pharmacology), and published by Shree Sai Prakashan, Meerut. Suitable for D.Pharma Second Year students at every PCI-approved institute across India.