Pulse check as a tool to raise awareness of atrial fibrillation in pharmacies in the Czech Republic - a pilot project

K. Malá-Ládová, A. Patková, J. Šolínová, F. Alves Da Costa

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):198-203 | DOI: 10.36290/csf.2019.022  

Objective: The aim of the study was to raise the awareness of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the importance of pulse check in Czech pharmacies as well as to point out further possibilities of developing consulting activities in pharmacies. Method: Our project was performed as part of a worldwide campaign during three weeks: Heart Rhythm Week (06/2017) and Atrial Fibrillation Awareness Week (11/2017, 11/2018). Pharmacies actively providing indi-vidual counselling offered manual pulse check to patients aged ≥ 40 years without chronic anticoagulant therapy. Whenever high risk of AF was observed, patients were referred to a physician...

(Meth)acrylate copolymers of Eudragit® type in oral tablet technology

Martina Naiserová, Kateřina Kubová, Jakub Vysloužil, Jurga Bernatonienė, Iosif Brokalakis, David Vetchý

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):183-197 | DOI: 10.36290/csf.2019.021  

This review focuses on the characterization of (meth)acrylate copolymers - Eudragit^®, describing their thermal treatment behaviour, possible interactions between cationic and anionic polymers, incompatibilities related to Eudragits^® and their use in the pharmaceutical technology of oral tablets. In summary, Eudragit^® copolymers are divided into soluble ones, insoluble ones and a combination of these two types. The combination of soluble and insoluble poly(meth)acrylate gave a new type of polymer, Eudragit^® FL. In oral tablet technology, Eudragits^® are widely used in matrix tablets,...

Honoring the 80th Anniversary of the World War II outbrake

Kateřina Kubová, Jakub Vysloužil

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):204-207 | DOI: 10.36290/csf.2019.023  

This article, prepared on the occasion of the 80^th anniversary of the World War II outbreak, serves to remind the war generation of pharmacists and their sacrifices through several selected personalities. In several short medallions it recalls the lives of heroes Tadeusz Pankiewicz and Laure Gatet, the German tanker Otto Carius and it mentions several other personalities. From the post-war generation it presents Jean-Claude Pressac as the author of the evidence elaboration on the Holocaust.

Nové knihy

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):215  

Pokroky ve farmaceutické technologii. Pracovní den sekce technologie léků

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):208-213  

X. zjazd Slovenskej farmaceutickej spoločnosti

J. Čižmárik

Čes. slov. farm. 2019, 68(5):214