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Clinical Pharmacy, A Practical Manual is designed for Pharmacy Practice students who visits to hospital and performs the practicals with a role of clinical pharmacist.

Pharm. D under graduates will be allotted in hospital postings in various departments designed to complement the lectures by providing practical clinical discussion; attending ward rounds; follow up the progress and changes made in drug therapy in allotted patients; case presentation upon discharge. For the need of documentation during their hospital postings, institutional hospital activity forms will be more helpful. So that learners will be able to develop the skills of self learning critical thinking, problem identification and decision making. The institutional activity forms has been designed to focus on learning process of solving drug therapy problems, rather than simply finding the scientific answers to the problems themselves. Learners learn scientific facts during the resolution of case study problems, but they usually learn more of them from their own independent study and from discussions with their peers than they do from the instructor.

QT interval is estimated from the beginning of Q wave to the end of T wave on ECG. This can be explained due to the shortening or lengthening of the ventricular repolarization. The study has performed to assess QT interval prolongation due to drugs and drug-drug interactions resulting QT interval prolongation. This study reveals some of the specific drugs causing QT interval prolongation. The study also reveals that QT interval prolongation occurs in almost all therapeutic classes of drugs (like tricyclic antidepressants, anti-emetics, prokinetic agents, antifungals, cardiovascular drugs etc) among which cardiac drugs were majorly causing the prolongation. This research work founded five major causes that lead to QT interval prolongation. The study also discusses about risk factors which are considered as a causative factor to prolong QT interval.