About the Book

The book ‘Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy’ has been written keeping in mind, the background and understanding of undergraduate students of pharmacy. As the subject is new and not yet in practice in Indian Hospitals, theoretical aspects of the subject written in a simple manner, so as the budding pharmacists can understand the basics of the subject and can build upon it, when they actually enter into the practice of hospital and clinical pharmacy.

Contents

PART – I: Hospital Pharmacy, 1. Hospitals – an Introduction, 2. Hospital Pharmacy, 3. Pharmacy and Therapeutic Committee, 4. Hospital Formulary, 5. Hospital Committees, 6. Pharmacy Procedural Manual, 7. Budget of Hospital Pharmacy, 8. Manufacturing in Hospitals, 9. Total Parenteral Nutrition and Intravenous Admixture, 10. Pre-Packing and Repacking in Hospitals

About the Authors

Dr. N.Narayanan. M.Pharm., Ph.D. is one of the eminent teachers in pharmacy who has more than 30 years of experience. He had his undergraduate and post graduate degrees from the reputed institution of temple city the Madurai Medical College in Tamil Nadu. He has started his carrier as a Hospital Pharmacist and risen to the top most post of the department, the Joint Director of Medical Education (Pharmacy) of Government of Tamil Nadu.

                He has served as Manufacturing Chemist as well as Analytical Chemist in Private drug companies and also as Professor of Pharmacy in a Government Institution of Sultanate of Oman. He has published more than 45 research papers in peer reviewed international and national journals with high impact factor. He has guided 40 M. Pharm Students, 20 Ph.D. scholars and 2 M.D. (Pharmacology) candidates. He was the first Principal of College of Pharmacy attached to the prestigious 175 year old Madras medical College, Chennai and member of Tamil Nadu Pharmacy Council, Pharmacy Council of India, and almost all professional associations like IPA, IPGA, and APTI.

Prof. S. Balasubramanian. M. Pharm, (Ph.D.) is one of the active, senior Pharmacy teachers from south Tamil Nadu having studied both his undergraduate and post graduate pharmacy degrees from the prestigious and premier institute of the country – Madurai Medical College. He took FIRST RANK in his batch of B. Pharm, passed out in 1976.

                He has almost a decade of experience as Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Chemist, another decade of experience as Community Pharmacist in a foreign country and in Pharmacy teaching ever since he returned from abroad in 1994. Thus he has vast experience in almost all the major fields of Pharmacy which makes him unique among the authors of Pharmacy textbooks.