PHRD-621: Critical Care Pharmacotherapeutics

This elective course focuses on the unique considerations for a clinical pharmacist caring for critically ill patients and prepares the student to understand the critical differences in pharmacokinetics, physiology and pharmacotherapy in such patients. This elective will incorporate a broad range of topics previously introduced during various Pharmacotherapeutics modules. Instructors will engage the students eac week in both didactic and case-based learning in order to expose the students to the topics and disease states they encounter on a daily basis in intensive care units. Students will also have the opportunity to enhance their understanding through background readings, evaluation and discussion of primary literature and integration of SimMan technology into the course. Students will rotate through leading an online discussion forum on one landmark critical care trial. Twice during the semester, students will be required to submit a full SOAP note reflecting cumulative knowledge gained in the course to that point by the end of the course, students should be well-versed in the fundamental knowledge needed to prepare and monitor patient-specific pharmocotherapy plans in a variety of critical care setting. [ 2 credits ]