I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?
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In most countries, the doctor of pharmacy degree is a continuous 6 years undergraduate professional degree. The six (6) years consist of a maximum of 5years purely academic studies and 1 year of hospital internship. These who apply to such universities are not required to have a previous bachelors dRead more
In most countries, the doctor of pharmacy degree is a continuous 6 years undergraduate professional degree. The six (6) years consist of a maximum of 5years purely academic studies and 1 year of hospital internship. These who apply to such universities are not required to have a previous bachelors degree in any programme at all.
However, some other countries offer it as a 3 years postgraduate degree to people who already have a Bsc in pharmacy or a very related programme.
Also, in some other countries you require to have taken either a two (2) year pre-pharmacy course followed by four (4) years professional pharmacy programme in order to obtain the doctor of pharmacy degree which will still sum up to 6years in total.
Thus the average duration for the study of the doctor of pharmacy degree across the world is six (6) years.
In the treatment of severe malaria one of the key goals is a drastic reduction in the number of parasites present in the bloodstream of the individual. Hence to achieve this goal we have to ensure that the correct amount of medicine reaches the site of the infection to fight the parasites. Quinine aRead more
In the treatment of severe malaria one of the key goals is a drastic reduction in the number of parasites present in the bloodstream of the individual. Hence to achieve this goal we have to ensure that the correct amount of medicine reaches the site of the infection to fight the parasites.
See lessQuinine as a medicine is known to be highly protein bound and hence when giving it in sever malaria, one is expected to give a higher dose than what is required to suppress the parasites.
As such the stat dose of quinine should in severe malaria should be the 20mg/kg body weight so that enough of the quinine will be available after protein binding has taken place to work on the parasite. Subsequently, since the proteins are already bound, we will need to step down the dose to the 10mg/kg body weight and this will work on just the parasites available.