Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics (6th Ed.)
Coordonnateurs : Whittlesea Cate, Hodson Karen
Now fully revised and updated in its sixth edition, Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics combines the skills of an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, pharmacists and nurses to present an integrated understanding of disease processes, evidence-based clinical pharmacology and optimal drug regimes. Register your StudentConsult PIN for access to the e-book.
- Key points boxes at the beginning of each chapter
- Case-study boxes throughout the chapters
- Each chapter co-written by a pharmacist and a clinician
- In-depth treatment of therapeutics to support pharmaceutical prescribing
- Logical order and format: key points, epidemiology, aetiology, disease, clinical manifestations, investigations and treatment, drugs used in treatment.
- Dosage reference sources given where appropriate, along with useful websites and further reading for each chapter.
- New co-editor, Karen Hodson
- Over 10 new authors
- Now in 4-colour
- On StudentConsult for the first time
- New chapter on Dementia
- Many new and revised illustrations
- Chapters revised to include advances in therapeutics and changes to dose regimens and licensed indications
- Updated case studies
Section 1: General
- Clinical pharmacy process
- Prescribing
- Practical pharmacokinetics
- Drug interactions
- Adverse drug reactions
- Laboratory data
- Parenteral nutrition
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Neonates
- Paediatrics
- Geriatrics
- Peptic ulcer disease
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Constipation and diarrhoea
- Adverse effects of drugs on the liver
- Liver disease.
- Acute kidney injury
- Chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease
- Hypertension
- Coronary heart disease
- Chronic heart failure
- Arrhythmias
- Thrombosis
- Dyslipidaemia
- Asthma
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Insomnia
- Anxiety disorders
- Affective disorders
- Schizophrenia
- Epilepsy
- Parkinson's disease
- Dementia
- Pain
- Nausea and vomiting
- Respiratory infections
- Urinary tract infections
- Gastrointestinal infections
- Infective meningitis
- Surgical site infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis
- Tuberculosis
- HIV infection.
- Fungal infections
- Thyroid and parathyroid disorders
- Diabetes mellitus
- Menstrual cycle disorders
- Menopause
- Drugs in pregnancy and lactation
- Prostate disease.
- Anaemia.
- Leukaemia
- Lymphomas
- Solid tumours.
- Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Gout and hyperuricaemia
- Glaucoma
- Drug-induced skin disorders
- Eczema and psoriasis
- Wounds.
Section 2: Life stages
Section 3: TherapeuticsGastrointestinal disorders
Section 4: Appendices.
Medical abbreviations
Glossary
Index
- Pharmacy students and postgraduate pharmacists
- Pharmacology
- Medicine (secondary market)
- Non-medical prescribers
- Nurse practitioners (prescribers)
Dr Karen Hodson is a Senior Lecturer and Director MSc in Clinical Pharmacy and Director for Non-medical Prescribing at the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Cardiff University. Karen is the Director for the MSc in Clinical Pharmacy which is a programme to develop pharmacists for their role as a hospital pharmacist. Part of her role involves ensuring the strategic direction of the programme is in line with changes within the National Health Service. Karen is also the director for a sister course in the same topic for the School of Nursing and Midwifery Studies. Karen was also a co-author on the 6th edition.
Date de parution : 08-2018
Ouvrage de 1112 p.
21.5x27.6 cm