7025 (v.5) Pharmaceutics 121
Area: |
School of Pharmacy |
Credits: |
25.0 |
Contact Hours: |
6.0 |
| ** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. ** | |
Lecture: |
1 x 2 Hours Weekly |
Tutorial: |
1 x 1 Hours Weekly |
Laboratory: |
1 x 3 Hours Weekly |
Syllabus: |
Metrology including mass and volume, qualitative and quantitative accuracy, triturates and aliquots. Percentage solutions, wt per mL, density and specific gravity. Alligation. The prescription, pharmaceutical latin. Scheduling of drug substances. Formulation, preparation, constituents and uses of aromatic waters, mouth washes and gargles, inhalations, linctuses, glycerols and other alcohols and syrups. Separation, methods of separation and clarification. Dosage form design - absorption of drugs, mechanisms and factors influencing absorption. General formulation of mixtures, solutions and suspensions, topical preparations applied tokeratinised surfaces (ointments, creams, lotions liniments), topical preparations applied to mucous surfaces (suppositories, enemas, pessaries, ophthalmic products), parenteral preparations (injections). Flavouring agents, colouring agents, including legislative control and toxicology. Posology - factors affecting drug dosage, infants and children's doses, introductory toxicology. Pharmaceutical solids, solids and the crystalline state-melting point, heat of fusion, sublimation, polymorphism, isomorphism. |
| ** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. ** | |
Field of Education: | 060500 Pharmacy (Narrow Grouping) |
Funding Cluster: | 06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health |
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: | Informational *Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information |
Result Type: | Grade/Mark |
Availability |
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| Availability Information has not been provided by the respective School or Area. Prospective students should contact the School or Area listed above for further information. | |
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