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Background – Acharya Vinoba Bhave Rural Hospital’s Pharmacy is a decentralized pharmacy which performs both patient oriented and product oriented approach. The medicines dispensed to the patients are selected merely on the quality of product and the manufacturer, no substandard medicines are kept in AVBRH pharmacy and the patient are treated with high quality medicines. Objectives To observe the working of decentralized pharmacy in AVBRH. To observe the working of centralized pharmacy. To observe the drug delivery system of decentralized and centralized pharmacy. To compare centralized and decentralized pharmacy. To study the benefits of centralized and decentralized pharmacy. Which pharmacy is beneficial to AVBR Hospital. Methodology The data required will be collected from the manager , pharmacy in-charge , pharmacist and associate pharmacist working at the decentralized hospital in AVBRH and other centralized hospitals and the nurses and patients of AVBRH. Material used – routine activities analysis format Place of study - AVBRH, Sawangi (Meghe), Wardha and other pharmacies outside hospital. Duration of study- 2 years Study design – observational study Data collection Primary data –4 pharmacies of AVBRH, by observing all major activities and other pharmacies Secondary data – Question based survey Expected Results – Decentralized pharmacy can be beneficial to AVBRH, as separation of services can be beneficial to both the patients and hospital Study implications – Decentralized pharmacy can be beneficial to the AVBR Hospital and the patients.

Acute inflammatory diseases are a major cause of death in the world, and effective treatments are greatly needed. Macrophages play a central role in causing acute inflammatory diseases, and there is currently great interest in developing drug delivery vehicles that can target therapeutics to macrophages. Microparticles formulated from aliphatic polyketals have great potential to enhance the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases, due to their ability to passively target therapeutics to macrophages, their acid sensitivity, and their biocompatible degradation products. However, existing aliphatic polyketals are unsuitable for treating acute inflammatory diseases because they require weeks to hydrolyze, and strategies for accelerating their hydrolysis kinetics are greatly needed. In this report, we demonstrate that the hydrolysis kinetics of aliphatic polyketals can be accelerated by increasing their hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance. Aliphatic polyketals of varying hydrophobicity were synthesized, via the acetal exchange reaction, and their hydrolysis kinetics were investigated at the pH values of 4.5 and 7.4. A polyketal termed PK3 was developed, which had the hydrolysis kinetics suitable for treating acute inflammatory diseases. PK3 has a hydrolysis half-life of 2 days at pH 4.5, but requires several weeks to hydrolyze at pH 7.4. Microparticles were formulated with PK3, which encapsulated the anti-inflammatory drug, imatinib. In vivo experiments demonstrated that PK3 microparticles were able to significantly improve the efficacy of imatinib in treating acute liver failure. We anticipate that aliphatic polyketals will have numerous applications for the treatment of acute inflammatory diseases, given their pH sensitivity, tunable hydrolysis kinetics, and biocompatible degradation products.

In the present study, an attempt was made to study the acute and sub-acute toxicity profile of G3-COOH Poly (propyl ether imine) PETIM] dendrimer and its use as a carrier for sustained delivery of model drug ketoprofen. Drug-dendrimer complex was prepared and characterized by FTIR, solubility and in vitro drug release study. PETIM dendrimer was found to have significantly less toxicity in A541 cells compared to Poly amido amine (PAMAM) dendrimer. Further, acute and 28 days sub-acute toxicity measurement in mice showed no mortality, hematological, biochemical or histopathological changes up to 80 mg/kg dose of PETIM dendrimer. The results of study demonstrated that G3-COOH PETIM dendrimer can be used as a safe and efficient vehicle for sustained drug delivery. (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.