7026 (v.5) Pharmaceutics 122

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:

Poisons Act and Regulations relating to labelling and containers. Galenicals, drug extraction, selection of solvent. Maceration and percolation. Formulation, preparation, storage and uses of selected Official Solutions. Haemodialysis solutions, contact lens solutions, enemas. Common solvents used in pharmacy. Phase Rule and Phase Diagrams. Drying of pharmaceutical solids, equilibrium moisture content, theory and rates of drying, exsiccation and desiccation. Theory of freeze drying and freeze driers. Methods of drying, fluid bed drying, batch driers, hot air oven, vacuum driers, fluid bed driers, spray driers. Pharmaceutical packaging - properties of the ideal package, types of containers, glass, plastics, closures. Comminution - particle size, particle classification and methods of comminution, factors influencing degree of comminution. Ethanolic solutions, proof spirit, ethanol and dilutions, methylated spirits, surgical spirit and elixir. Dermatological preparations, classification of products and formulation of bases for ointments, lotions, liniments, paints, pastes and gels. Powders - oral and external use powders, insufflations, capsules.

** 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

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2007	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External