Table of Contents

Shobha Rani Hiremath

pp. 89 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.1 · 2015

Dear Readers, In today’s hectic life world is witnessing vertical developments in every aspect of life as a result of the continuous efforts of talented and hardworking professionals. One of the noble professions of crea…

Seema Rath, Marryam Tariq, Fadzai Mushoriwa, Tinatsei Chigumete, Tiisetso Morobi, Sunitha Srinivas

pp. 90-97 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.2 · 2015

The burden of Non Communicable Diseases (NCDs) is one of the vital factors that is currently affecting most of the developing countries. NCDs accounted for 68% of worldwide deaths in 2012 and nearly three fourth of these…

Mohseenkhan Munshi, Sanjith Saseedharan

pp. 98-101 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.3 · 2015

Introduction: The process of identifying the most accurate list of all medications that the patient is taking, including name, dosage, frequency, and route, by comparing the medical record to an external list or containe…

Veintramuthu Sankar, Ramya Krishna, Vuyyuru Krishna Reddy, Narmadha Muthu Mahendiran, Sameer Hussain, Rama Parthasarathy

pp. 102-112 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.4 · 2015

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that occurs when the pancreas is no longer able to make insulin, or when the body cannot make good use of the insulin it produces. It can be controlled using oral hypo…

Ahamada Safna Mariyam Mubarak Ali, Gunamanikyam Lakshmi Bhuvana

pp. 113-116 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.5 · 2015

Background: Urbanization and life style changes in developing countries lead to increase in the incidence and prevalence of diabetes. Diabetes is a chronic disease which affects both genders of all age groups. Glycemic l…

Himanshu Patel, Shobha Churi, Parthasarathi Gurumurthy, Ramesh Madhan

pp. 117-125 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.6 · 2015

Background: To ensure the competent delivery of patient care by clinical pharmacists, it is essential to evaluate services provided by them. Objectives: This study was conducted to assess the impact of Standard operating…

Kandimalla Chaitanya, Chandra Jahnavi, Yerragundla Kanthi Kiran, Apollo James, T Raman Ashok Kumar, Thangavel Sivakumar

pp. 133-135 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.8 · 2015

Bartter Syndrome is an inherited renal tubular disorder with hypokalaemia, hypochloremic and metabolic alkalosis. The syndrome was diagnosed by elevated serum renin levels, which is seen in our case, improved with potass…

Jammalamdaka Sreelakshmi Kameshwari, Hareesh Angothu, Raju Devde

pp. 136-138 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.9 · 2015

Akathisia is an extra pyramidal side effect with neuroleptic drugs which can be explained as a subjective desire to move or manifest restless movements like shuffling, tramping movements of legs/feet with objective evide…

Thommanduru Priyanka, Alluru Lekhanth, Alluru Revanth

pp. 139-142 · DOI: 10.5530/ijopp.8.3.10 · 2015

A case report is presented of a 3-year-old boy who came with the complaints of weakness of lower limbs since 5 days and upper limbs since 3 days. On examination he had generalized hypotonia and areflexia. Power of the li…