📘 Step 1 — Curriculum Coverage
This section outlines integrated curriculum components covered in this topic.
🔹 Pharmacology
- Drugs acting on sympathetic nervous system
• Mechanism of action of drugs acting on sympathetic nervous system
• Drugs acting on parasympathetic nervous system
• Mechanism of action of drugs acting on parasympathetic nervous system
🔹 Forensic Medicine
- Certification of brain death
• Medicolegal importance of brain death
🩺 Clinical Importance
- Syncope as a clinical presentation related to brainstem arousal systems, autonomic control, vascular tone and consciousness
• Differentiation of transient loss of consciousness from coma and brain death
