Introduction of Hospital Pharmacy Flashcards
Who is Aesculapius?
(God of Medicine and Healing)
Give the Different Ancient Health Care
a. Greek (400-300 B.C)
b. Early Rome (200-500 A.D)
c. Spread of Christianity
d. Egypt
e. Middle Ages
Where Hippocrates practiced medicine and pharmacy
Temple on the Greek Island of Cos
What are the treatment included when Hippocrates practiced medicine and pharmacy?
✓ Herbal medicines
✓ Mineral baths – hot springs, salt springs
✓ Exercises
✓ Fresh sea air
✓ Sunshine
In Greek era illnesses are what? And treatment is?
- punishments from the gods,
- trial and error
A wealthy Roman woman who donated her palace for the care of the sick and
injured and personally cared for their needs
Fabiola
The care for the sick became a civil responsibility
Fall of the Roman Empire
Hospitals were endowed by wealthy citizens who frequently cared for the sick as volunteers in what era?
Early Rome (200-500 A.D)
What is the 4th Century A.D in Spread of Christianity?
Council Of Nicea
In council of nicea bishops are required to what?
To provide a shelter for the care of the sick
Hospital name in Egypt
The great Al-Mansur Hospital in Cairo, Egypt
The great Al-Mansur Hospital in Cairo, Egypt is an example of what?
the Arabs’ interest and
dedication to health care. It is the first the hospital to have a variety of areas for particular diseases,
out-patient clinics, convalescent areas, diet kitchens and a large medical library.
What year did the Black Plague started?
1350
Plague that killed almost 1/3 of the inhabitants of Europe
Black Plague (1350)
Why did church forbade clerics from performing surgery?
because it involves a lot of blood loss
What year did the churches forbade clerics from performing surgery?
1163
Give the 4 Pre- and Post- Renaissance Period
a. St. Camillus de Lellis
b. Pope Sixtus V
c. 18th Century
d. United States
In what period did military hospitals begin to take shape?
United States
Who founded a religious order in 1568?
St. Camillus de Lellis
Who authorized the red cross as a special symbol designating the special service provided by the
order in the care of patients.
Pope Sixth V
It is the symbol seen in battlefields and is a famous relief orgaization?
the International Red Cross
One of the largest hospitals in Europe founded in 717?
Hospital of the Holy Spirit
Founded a religious order in 1568?
the Cleric’s Regular Servants of the Sick at the Hospital of
St. James in Rome.
Founded by the Quakers as an alms house to give relief to the sick, the
incurables, poor and orphans and abandoned infants
Philadelphia General Hospital (1713)
1st American Hospital founded in 1751
Pennsylvania Hospital
He is the first American Hospital Pharmacist
Benjamin Franklin Jonathan Roberts
He pioneered several hospital pharmacies practices in the late 1800s
Charles Rice
Bristol Royal Hospital (period)
1st voluntary hospital in the provinces
(18th century)
18th century
Many hospitals were built in England to provide diagnosis and treatment for the poor
Guy’s Hospital in London
Built in 1740 and provided free care through a ticket admission system
Who is the Chief Pharmacist in the Bellevue Hospital in New York City
Charles Rice
In the Mid 1800, what do people believed?
they believed that diet and lifestyle are enough to heal
the sick
In 1800, US has only _____ hospitals. And hospitals played __________________
- 2
- small role in health care
What year did the number of hospitals doubled?
1870 – 1880s
______________ were built which improved services and were willing
to train or obtain training for nuns in pharmacy
Roman Catholic Hospital
In what year small hospitals grew in number?
1890’s
In the year 1890’s they relied the supply of medication on?
The community pharmacies
Year where it is More organized division of labor, more specialization in medical practice
1990’s
1920’s
- Advent of hospital pharmacy formulary
- Alcohol was prohibited
- Pharmacists were needed for both inventory control and to manufacture alcohol-containing
preparations
1930s
- Many pharmacy-related issues arose. The American Hospital Association (AHA) created
a Committee of Pharmacy to analyze the problems and make recommendations
Committee Goals:
✓ Develop minimum standards for hospital pharmacy departments
*minimum standards are minimum requirements needed to be able to put up a
hospital pharmacy
✓ Prepare a manual of Pharmacy operations
- The AHA stated that “any hospital of more than 100 beds warrants the employment of a
registered pharmacist”
1936
- Edward Spease promulgated the concept of a Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee
(PTC), a formal mechanism by which the pharmacy department and medical staff would
communicate about drug issues
1950 – 1960s
- Sterile solution preparation – production of distilled water and the manufacture of large
volume sterile solutions were major pharmacy activities in medium and large hospitals - Improvement of Drug Distribution Systems
✓ Centralized pharmacy and decentralized pharmacy
✓ William Heller and William Tester pioneered the Unit Dose Drug Distribution
System (UDDDS) a division of a big dose to smaller doses/ unit dose
(UDDDS) meaning
Unit Dose Drug Distribution
System
Promulgated the concept of PTC?
Edward Spease