BookPeter N. Bennett, Morris J. Brown, Pankaj Sharma.
Summary: A thorough knowledge of pharmacological and therapeutic principles is vital if drugs are to be used safely and effectively for increasingly informed patients. Those who clearly understand how drugs get into the body, how they produce their effects, what happens to them in the body, and how evidence of their therapeutic effect is assessed, will choose drugs more skilfully, and use them more safely and successfully than those who do not. Now in a fully revised 11th edition, Clinical Pharmacology is essential reading for undergraduate medical students, junior doctors and anyone concerned with ev.
Contents:
Clinical pharmacology
Topics in drug therapy
Discovery and development of drugs
Evaluation of drugs in humans
Health technology assessment
Official regulation of medicines
Classification and naming of drugs
General pharmacology
Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
Drug dependence
Chemotherapy of infections
Antibacterial drugs
Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
Drugs for inflammation and joint disease
Drugs and the skin
Pain and analgesics
Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
Psychotropic drugs
Neurological disorders
epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis
Cholinergic and antimuscarinic (anticholinergic) mechanisms and drugs
Adrenergic mechanisms and drugs
Arterial hypertension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure
Cardiac arrhythmia
Hyperlipidaemias
Kidney and genitourinary tract
Respiratory system
Drugs and haemostasis
Red blood cell disorders
Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
Intestines
Liver and biliary tract
Adrenal corticosteroids, antagonists, corticotropin
Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabetes agents, obesity
Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
Vitamins, calcium, bone.