SURG 203 - Surgical Pharmacology

1. Define medical terminology, abbreviation, and basic concepts of pharmacology.
2. Discuss medication development, regulation, and resources.
3. Apply principles of medication measurement.
4. Explain preparation, care, and handling of medications and solutions in the operating room.
5. Discuss the use of anti-infective agents in perioperative care of the patient including antiseptics.
6. Explore contrast media, dyes, and staining agents.
7. Identify uses of diuretics in the intraoperative patient.
8. Describe uses of hormones in the surgical patient including obstetrical agents.
9. Investigate drugs that affect coagulation in the surgical patient including anticoagulants, fibrinolytics, hemostatics, and coagulants.
10. Compare ophthalmic agents used in the perioperative setting.
11. Describe IV fluids and irrigation solutions including minerals and blood replacement interventions used on the perioperative patient.
12. Paraphrase the use of antineoplastic chemotherapy in the perioperative patient.
13. Investigate medications and monitoring used in the preoperative patient including analgesics, anticholinergics, antacids, histamine receptor antagonists, anticonvulsants, and antiemetics.
14. Compare and contrast the use of anti-anxiety medications in the preoperative patient including sedatives, hypnotics, and tranquilizers.
15. Compare and contrast the administration of local and regional anesthesia.
16. Discuss assessment to determine anesthesia choice and surgical team roles during each type of anesthesia.
17. Discuss administration of general anesthesia in the surgical patient.
18. Explore management of complications of anesthesia and other emergency situations in the surgical patient including cardiac, autonomic nervous system agents, respiratory system agents, antipyretics, central nervous system stimulants, and antihistamines.
19. Discuss alternative medication used in the surgical patient including nutritional supplements, antiseptics, immunizations, surgical adhesives, and herbal medications.

• Alternative medications
• Analgesics and antipyretic agents
• Anesthesia: general, local, & alternative
• Anticoagulants and fibrinolytics
• Anticonvulsants
• Antiemetics & antihistamines
• Anti-infectives
• Antineoplastic chemotherapy
• Assessment to determine anesthesia choice
• Autonomic agents
• Blood replacement interventions
• Cardiac medications
• Care & handling of medications & solutions
• Central nervous system stimulants
• Coagulants and hemostatics
• Complications of anesthesia
• Contrast media, staining agents, & dyes Diuretics
• Drug forms and routes of administration
• Emergency drugs
• Gastric medications
• Hormones
• Inhalations
• Intravenous fluids
• Irrigation solutions
• Laws, policies, & procedures
• Medication measurements
• Medication nomenclature & classifications
• Medication publications
• Medication/solutions violations
• Narcotics and narcotics antagonists
• Obstetrical agents
• Ophthalmic medications
• Preoperative medication of the patient
• Sedative-hypnotic & tranquilizers
• Sources of medications
• Surgical team roles during administration
• Terminology

 
GRADING POLICY
Scores from the quizzes, tests, and final must average a minimum of a D or higher to successfully complete this class.

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