Pharmacology
Activity
Clerkship Teaching Session
Clerkship Teaching Session
Curriculum Block
Anesthesia Rotation / Clerkship
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Clerkship Objectives
- Explain the following concepts as they relate to drugs administered via intravenous: half-life, therapeutic range, metabolism, redistribution, elimination and target organ
- Identify intravenous drugs used in the induction, maintenance and emergence of general anesthesia, including indications for use, mechanism of action, and common side effects
- Identify inhalation anesthetic agents used in the induction and maintenance of general anesthesia including mode of delivery, indications of use, mechanism of action, concept of minimum alveolar concentration and common side effects
- Explain the presentation and management of pseudocholinesterase (plasma cholinesterase) deficiency as an example of a pharmacogenetic disease.
Tags
Basic Sciences
Pharmacology
Cohort Year
2010
Curriculum Block
Anesthesia Rotation
Clerkship
Discipline
Anesthesiology
Pharmacology
McMaster Program Competencies
1.99 Other Patient Care
2.2 Apply biomedical scientific principles fundamental to health care for patients and populations.
2.3 Apply principles of clinical sciences to diagnostic and therapeutic decision-making, clinical problem-solving, and other aspects of evidence-based healthcare
2.4 Apply principles of epidemiological sciences to the identification of health problems, risk factors, treatment strategies, resource allocation, and disease prevention/health promotion efforts for patients and populations
3.99 Other practice-based learning and improvement
4.99 Other interpersonal and communication skills
5.99 Other professionalism
6.99 Other systems-based practice
8.99 Other personal and professional development
MeSH
Analgesics [D27.505.696.663.850.014]
Analgesics, Opioid [D27.505.954.427.040.325]
Anesthesia [E03.155]
Anesthetics [D27.505.696.277.100]
Pharmacology [H01.158.703]
