[Role of the hospital pharmacy in the preparation of an emergency plan. Experience of the central pharmacy of Angers Regional University Hospital Center]. / Rôle d'une pharmacie hospitalière dans l'élaboration d'un plan d'urgence. Expérience de la pharmacie centrale du CHRU d'Angers.

In case of disasters, an emergency plan has been set up in Angers hospital, to conform to the law. This plan concerns many partners including the hospital Pharmacist. The two principal roles of the Pharmacist are the elaboration of a checklist of drugs, medical and hospital supplies necessary for the care of the victims and the sep up of emergency containers. The computerization of this plan will facilitate its management. Thus the Hospital Pharmacist contributes to the rationalization of a health care necessity in a constrained economic context.

[Topical ophthalmic drugs]. / Actualités sur les formes médicamenteuses ophtalmiques locales.

Although satisfactory therapeutic results are obtained with usual topical opthalmic drugs, they present some inconveniences. Particularly, their biodisponibility is often poor, requiring the use of relatively important doses, and repeated applications. In order to avoid these difficulties, different systems more or less sophisticated, such as soluble inserts, impregnated lenses, liposomes or implantable pumps, have been conceived for topical application. However, although these systems seem to present certain advantages, none of them, commercialized or not, have been quite satisfactory.