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Clinical Pharmacy Pocket Companion

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Clinical Pharmacy Pocket Companion

£24.69 RRP: £25.99 You save £1.30 (5.0%)

ISBN: 9780853699552
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Date Published: Sep 2006
Format: Paperback

Clinical Pharmacy Pocket Companion is an A-Z pocket book containing concise and practical pharmaceutical information for clinical pharmacists. It provides the user with a range of tools, suggestions and advice to assist in the provision of pharmaceutical care.

Bringing together disparate information not easily found in other reference sources, this pocket book deals with obscure problems as well as routine queries arising from:
•Therapeutic drug monitoring
•Electrolyte disturbances
•Management of disease states
•Perioperative drug administration.

This is a useful, practical guide in a handy format. It will be an invaluable tool for practising pharmacists and also a helpful study aid for pharmacy students.

Contents:
Acetylcysteine for nebulisation
Adverse drug reactions
Alcoholism
Anaemias
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antipsychotics
Apomorphine in Parkinson's disease
Appetite stimulation
Aspirin
Asthma management principles
Benzodiazepines and hypnotics
Bicarbonate
Bisphosphonates and tumour-induced hypercalcaemia
Body surface area
Calcium
Carbamazepine
Chloramphenicol (systemic)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Ciclosporin
Clinical trials
Clozapine
Corticosteroid oral/intravenous conversion
C-reactive protein
Cytotoxic chemotherapy waste management
Danger symptoms
D-dimer
Diabetes mellitus
Diabetic ketoacidosis and hyperosmolar non-ketotic syndrome
Digoxin
Dobutamine dosing and administration
Dopamine dosing and administration
Doxycycline: counselling points
Enoxaparin: dosing in unstable angina
Enteral feeding systems and drug administration
Epidural analgesia
Epilepsy: antiepileptic drugs
Erythrocyte sedimentation rate
Extravasation
Eye drops: use and care
Eye ointments: use and care
Fluid balance
Folinate rescue regimen
Gentamicin
Glucocortocoid-induced osteoporosis
Glucose testing: monitoring diabetes
Grapefruit juice-drug interactions
Haemofiltration
Human immunodeficiency virus drugs
Hypodermoclysis
Ideal body weight
Immunoglobulin for intravenous administration
Inhaler management
Injections
Insulins
Insulin, intravenous infusion: use of sliding scales
Intravascular devices
Iron (parenteral)
Lansoprazole
Lithium
Liver disease
Liver function tests
Low-molecular-weight heparins
Magnesium
Medication history-taking
Mesna
Methadone
Nausea and vomiting management
Neuroleptic malignant syndrome
Nicotine replacement therapy
'Nil by mouth'
Nitrate tolerance
Omeprazole-parenteral administration
Pain management
Paraneoplastic fever and sweats
Patient-controlled analgesia
Perindopril
Pharmacocultural issues
Phenytoin
Phosphate
Potassium
Prescription charge exemptions and pre-payment certificates
Regimen or regime?
Renal function
Retinal/fundal ocular examination
Rheumatoid arthritis
Salmeterol inhalers
Sclerosants for pleurodesis in the management of malignant pleural effusions
Serotonin syndrome
Sodium
Spirometry
Sterile larvae and wound care
Streptokinase, unlicensed uses
Stroke guidelines
Suppositories
Surgical pharmacy
Synacthen (tetracosactide) tests
Syringe drivers
Theophylline
Thyroid function
Tinzaparin: dosing in DVT and prophylaxis of PE
Tobramycin
Total parenteral nutrition
Troponins
Tuberculosis
Urokinase
Vancomycin
Vitamins and minerals
Warfarin
Yellow card scheme
Zinc

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