Unique Facilities: Clinical Pharmacology
Therapeutic Drug Monitoring OPD for Epilepsy:
Antiepileptic drugs : Monday and Friday, 9 am to 10.30 am
Lithium : Monday to Saturday, 9 am to 11.00 am
Monitoring of levels phenytoin, phenobarbitone, carbamazepine, valproic acid, lamotrigine and lithium is available at nominal cost. Results are available after a week except in case of urgency when they are available within 24 hours. Senior clinical pharmacologists run this outpatient where patients are advised on dosage, compliance and interactions with drugs as well as management of adverse drug reactions and drug usage in pregnancy.
Malaria:
Malaria Research OPD : OPD No.16, 1st floor, OPD Bldg., 9 am- 12 noon, daily
This service is run daily by a clinical pharmacologist, a technician and a malaria inspector. Services offered include species identification on peripheral smears, initiating proper therapy and monitoring for resistance, relapse or reinfection. Patients are admitted in the Clinical Pharmacology Ward at Kasturba Hospital. Strain identification methodology using the PCR technique is being developed.
Malaria Research Centre : (follow-up) Monday to Saturday:1 pm-3 pm
Ultrasonography for scrotal filariasis:
Daily, 9.30 am to 4.30 pm.
Detection of live adult worm is done to test efficacy anti-filarial treatment. Current anti-filarial drugs are microfilaricidal whereas newer drugs aim to be macrofilaricidal. Efficacy of new drugs (currently DEC + albendazole) is assessed by noting activity of live adult worm in dilated scrotal lymphatics before and after macrofilaricidal drugs.
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