<p><i>Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Lecture Notes</i> provides a clear and accessible overview of all the key prescribing topics needed for medical finals and beyond. Detailed coverage and discussion of pharmacology in a clinical context, combined with an easy-to-understand, readable style,
Lecture notes Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics
β Scribed by Gerard A McKay; Matthew R Walters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 330
- Edition
- 9
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Lecture Notes provides a clear and accessible overview of all the key prescribing topics needed for medical finals and beyond. Detailed coverage and discussion of pharmacology in a clinical context, combined with an easy-to-understand, readable style, helps improve and test understanding of pharmacological principles and reasoning on rotation and into the foundation years.
Key features for this edition include:
β’Β Clinical scenarios to root each chapter firmly in a real-life setting
β’Β Prescribing points flagging up important issues of clinical relevance
β’Β Expanded sections on drugs you may need in a hurry, prescribing and its pitfalls, and paediatric prescribing
β’Β A self-assessment section to test your knowledge and help prepare for examinationsΒ
Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Lecture Notes is an ideal resource for all medical students, junior doctors, and other prescribers, whether learning how pharmacological principles relate to clinical situations, brushing up on the basics while on rotation, or looking for a comprehensive overview of prescribing and therapeutics.
β¦ Table of Contents
Content: Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics --
Clinical trials and drug development --
Drugs and gastrointestinal disease --
Management of coronary artery disease and its complications --
Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease --
Drugs used to treat respiratory disease --
Drugs used to treat neurological disease --
Treatment of psychiatric disorders --
Antimicrobial therapy --
HIV and antiretroviral treatment --
Travel medicine and tropical disease --
Drugs and endocrine disease --
Drugs and the reproductive system --
Drugs and the urological system --
Cancer therapeutics --
Drugs and inflammatory joint disease --
Immunopharmacology --
Drugs and the blood including anticoagulants and thrombolytic drugs --
Drugs used for pain relief and anaesthesia --
Clinical pharmacokinetics : dosage individualisation --
Influence of renal and hepatic disease on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics --
Prescribing for the young and the elderly --
Drugs in pregnant and breast-feeding women --
Pharmacoeconomics: the economic evaluation of new drugs --
Poisoning and drug overdose --
Drugs you may need in a hurry --
Prescribing and its pitfalls.
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If you understand how drugs work (pharmacodynamics), how they are handled by the body (pharmacokinetics), how they interact with each other, and how drug treatments are assessed, then you will become a better prescriber. A <em>Textbook of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics</em> gives you that un