Pharmacokinetics

In this course, you will learn the principles of pharmacokinetics and drug dose adjustment in renal disease. Week 1 - Renal Physiology and Function Learn the basic physiology of the kidneys and describe filtration, secretion and reabsorption of water, electrolytes and small molecular weight non-electrolytes Week 2 - Pharmacokinetics and Dosing Regimen in Renal Failure Understand the mechanisms of renal drug excretion Week 3 - Dosing Regimen And Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Renal Failure Become proficient at interpolating or extrapolating concentration based on first order kinetics Week 4 - Dosing Regimen in Renal Dialysis Learn to calculate dialysis clearance using the A-V difference method/ using dialysate concentration Week 5 - Acute Renal Failure Explore pathophysiology and the most common causes of prerenal, intrinsic, and postrenal Week 6 - Chronic Renal Failure Learn to describe the typical clinical presentation of chronic renal failure Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts. Find out more This course is for anyone requiring clinical pharmacokinetic knowledge, including undergraduate pharmacy students, post-graduate pharmacy students and pharmacists in clinical practice.