UClan • medicine

Will go into depth the different types of drugs used to treat diabetes and will show their mechanisms of actions and side effects.

This will provide you with an Introduction to opioids and opioid receptors, then it will go into detail about the uses of many types of opioids such as: Pain relief (analgesia) Cough medicine (antitussives) Anti-diarrhoea medication Sedation Recreation (narcotic)

This will provide you with common eye conditions that are treatable with pharmacological therapy, also after studying these notes you will know clinically useful drugs of the following classes, with mechanisms of action and side effects: Mydriatics and Cycloplegics Antiglaucoma drugs Lubricants Furthermore it shows which drugs are used to treat migraines.

This will provide you with the clinical effects, mechanisms of action and side effects for anxiolytic / hypnotic / sedative drugs and will explain how the mechanisms of action and pharmacokinetic profiles of these drugs determine their therapeutic use.

Briefly explains the biological basis of schizophrenia; involvement of dopamine. Recalls the key antipsychotic drugs and describes their mechanisms of action. Explains how antagonism at different receptor subtypes affects types of side effects.

Know the names, clinical effects, mechanisms of action and side effects for antidepressant drugs.

These notes will provide you with the important information about the different drugs used as local anesthetics and general anesthetics and will show their mechanism of action and their side effects. It will also go more in depth with induction and recovery kinetics of inhalation anesthetics.