Volume 8, Issue 1

Dr. Shobha Rani R. Hiremath

pp. 1 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.1 · 2015

Dear Readers, Recently I had an opportunity to attend ACPE “International Certification Program “whose main motto is to enhance the quality of pharmacy education. Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) was f…

Vijay Venkatraman Janarthanan, Ganesan Ramakrishnan, Subashchander Krishnamurthy, Akash Imayam Sahar

pp. 2-6 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.2 · 2015

Pharmacy as a profession has made significant progress in the recent years. It has seen a paradigm shift from product orientation to patient focus. Pharmacist should realize it’s no more a task carried out behind the cur…

Fatima Tahniyath, Fatima Hafeez, Hasbeen Sultana, Mohammed Ashfaq Hussain, Syed Abdul Azeez Basha

pp. 7-12 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.3 · 2015

Objective: To constitute a Pharmacy Therapeutic Committee (PTC) and compile, design, develop and publish Owaisi Hospital and Research Centre (OHRC) Hospital Formulary for a tertiary care multi speciality hospital as a pa…

Prajapati Aarohi Ashokbhai, Deshpande Shrikalp

pp. 13-18 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.4 · 2015

Background: Therapy in Intensive Care Unit (ICU) often involves poly pharmacy and patients require close therapy monitoring. When individualization of therapy is warranted, the role of pharmacist can prove to be the best…

Siva Shankar Reddy Y, Umesh Kamrthi, Balasubramanian Kumar

pp. 19-26 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.5 · 2015

Background: There were very less number of research studies been done in Indian settings or around the world about the efficacy and safety of Deferasirox in thalassemia patients. The objective of this study was to assess…

Mesfin Fikadu, Dereje Kebebe, Wote Amelo, Fanta Gashe

pp. 27-33 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.6 · 2015

Background: Pregnancy is a special physiological condition where the treatment needs a special concern. Moreover, pharmacotherapy during pregnancy is very challenging since only a few medicines have been specifically tes…

Ashok Kumar Malpani, Manjunath Waggi, Medari Santhekudlur Mukunda, Kiran Jampa, Mayakuntla Sindhuri

pp. 34-41 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.7 · 2015

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between health-related quality of life (HRQL) and disease severity using both disease specific and generic specific questionnaires and lung function measures. Me…

Vengala Bhavan Kumar, Tina Mariam Thankachan, Anuradha Amanapu, Devineni Surya Chandra, Sundararajan Parimala Krishnan

pp. 42-48 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.8 · 2015

Background: Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease of increasing prevalence that is a result of genetic predisposition and environmental interaction and one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. Aim and Obj…

Kakarparthy Ravi Shankar, Mulla Divya Krupa

pp. 49-52 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.1.9 · 2015

Background: Cellulitis is defined as an inflammation of skin and soft tissue associated with bacterial infection1 lower limbs are majorly effected area. Several studies and case reports support the safe usage of antibiot…