2024

Medicines for Veterinary Use

Name: Medicines for Veterinary Use
Code: CMS13764I
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Ciências Farmacêuticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

This UC aims to provide students with skills in the field of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, and the evaluation and management of potential risks of drugs, for animal health and public health.

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Students must:
- To know the fundamentals and general and specific concepts of Pharmacology, for the acquisition of skills both in the therapeutic application of etiotropic drugs in community pharmacy, and in the correct assessment and management of the potential risks of their use, for animal health and public health.
- Acquire solid knowledge of the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of organotropic drugs, in order to know and understand the therapeutic potentials and limitations, knowing how to recognize the preponderance of its symptomatological reach in animal therapy.

Contents

Ethiotropic drugs - antiseptics and disinfectants; antibiotics; antifungals; antivirals, antiparasitic. Rules of use and rational prescription of antimicrobial and antiparasitic drugs. on Organotropic drugs. Drugs with a predominant action on the central nervous system. Central mediators and mechanisms of action. Medullary depressants; psychotropic drugs; sedatives, hypnotis and tranquilizers; antipsychotics; antidepressants; centrally acting analgesics; analgesics-antipyretics; general and local anesthetics; anti-epileptics. Drugs from the vegetative nervous system with mimetic and lytic action on the cholinergic, adrenergic and dopaminergic systems. Neuromuscular transmission drugs; Autacoids. Drugs of the cardiovascular system. Blood drugs. Drugs from the urinary, respiratory and genital systems. Drugs in the digestive tract of monogastric and polygastric animals. Topical-acting organotropic drugs. Anti-inflammatory drugs. Antitumor chemotherapy and immunopharmacology.

Teaching Methods

Collective contact sessions for the transmission of fundamental knowledge where active methodologies that appeal to student / student interaction will be used, such as theoretical and practical activities, debates, group / peer research work, problem solving / exploration of CTS & A situations, which allows cooperative learning, a very effective method of solving problems and promoting learning. The evaluation will be carried out only by final written exam.