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INTRODUCTION TO HYPERTENSION: AN OVERVIEW TO THE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY TO THE HEART

An Overview Hey readers!! I am Sarang More an Edublogger and student. So in today’s video we are going to discuss about the PATHOPHYSIOLOGY of Hypertension. But, but, but before jumping into the actual concept it is very essential to know about the organ or the system in which the actual hypertension will be causing i.e. in heart obviously but more specifically in the arteries or the blood vessels. So in this article we are going to study about the CARDIOLOGY. Coming to the heart, it is relatively small, conical in shape and roughly as the size of one’s fist (not always possible). It is 12cm in length and 9cm in breath and 6cm thick. It weighs 250gm in adult females while in males it weighs about 300gm . The heart rest on diaphragm, near the midline of thoracic cavity known as mediastinum. Actually, the heart is slightly tilted towards left so it is said that heart is positioned to the left side. One more astounding fact about the heart is it is placed inverted in position,

POSOLOGY PART 1

  POSOLOGY H ey readers, this is again Sarang More. this is another blog on pharmaceutics 'posology'. please have a look and do share with yur friends and colleagues.  thank you! The posology is derived from two Greek words ‘poso’ meaning how much and ‘ logos’ meaning science. Posology is the branch of medical science which deals with dose and quantity of drugs which can be administered to the patients to get desired pharmacological actions. The dose of the drugs cannot be fixed rigidly because there are so many factors which influence the dose. These factors are age, condition of patient, severity of the disease, tolerance both natural and acquired, idiosyncrasy, route of administration, formulation needed drug interaction and rate of elimination. The official doses represents the average range of quantities suitable for adults which administered within 24 hours orally. When other route of administration are followed the relevant appropriate dose is given. It is r

INCOMPATIBILITIES IN PRESCRIPTION (PART 2)

  INCOMPATIBILITIES IN PRESCRIPTION PART 2 INCOMPATIBILITIES IN PRESCRIPTION (PART 1) Hey guys, this is Sarang More here with another blog. Please have a look on this blog as it will help you to clear your concept. Share it to your friends and family and other pharma family. ·      THERAPUETIC INCOMPATIBILITY: - Therapeutic incompatibility may be as a result of prescribing certain drugs to a patient with intention of producing the certain degree of pharmacological action, but the nature and intensity of action produced is different from that intended by the prescriber. These occur due to following reasons- a) Error in dosage. b) Wrong dose or dosage form c)   Contraindicated drugs d) Synergistic drugs and antagonistic drugs e) Drugs interaction f)    Prescribing drugs with wrong dosage form   a)   Error in dosage: - Many therapeutic incompatibilities result from error in writing or interpreting the prescription order. The most serious dosage error in the dispe