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This casebook is designed to help students develop the skills required to identify and resolve drug therapy problems through the use of patient case studies.
Essential Pharmacotherapy Data at Your Fingertips! A Doody's Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE! 4 STAR DOODY'S REVIEW "The book addresses all aspects of 84 disease states and disorders, from presentation and pathology to treatment and monitoring. Each chapter focuses on individual groups of medication considered for treatment and gives a concise overview of them in easy to see bulleted points. The qualities that I find especially useful are that charts and algorithms are easily identifiable and tables are shaded light gray for quick reference . . . Although this handbook contains an enormous amount of information, it conveniently fits into a lab coat pocket. It is an extremely useful reference."...
BONE AND JOINT DISORDERS Edited by Terry L. Schwinghammer 1. Gout and Hyperuricemia 2. Osteoarthritis 3. Osteoporosis 4. Rheumatoid Arthritis CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS Edited by Terry L. Schwinghammer 5. Arrhythmias 6. Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 7. Heart Failure 8. Hyperlipidemia 9.
The new edition of this popular, well-established textbook addresses the expanding role of the pharmacist in treating patients. It covers treatment of common diseases as well as other medical, therapeutic and patient related issues. Written by both pharmacists and clinicians to reflect a team approach, it offers an in-depth analysis of drug therapy in the treatment of disease, relying on input from the pharmacist as a member of the "team" in hospital and community settings. Information is easy to locate in a logical format organized primarily by systems and disorders.
Table of contents: Lesson 1. introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics Lesson 2. basic pharmacokinetics Lesson 3. half-life, elimination rate, and auc Lesson 4. intravenous bolus administration, multiple drug administration, and steady-state average concentrations Lesson 5. relationships of pharmacokinetic parameters and Intravenous intermittent and continuous infusions Lesson 6. two-compartment models Lesson 7. biopharmaceutics: absorption Lesson 8. drug distribution and protein binding Lesson 9. drug elimination processes Lesson 10. nonlinear processes Lesson 11. pharmacokinetic variation and model-independent relationships Lesson 12. aminoglycosides Lesson 13. vancomycin Lesson 14. theophylline Lesson 15. phenytoin and digoxin.
Presents 52 real-life clinical cases illustrating concepts in pharmacology. This book features Pharmacology Pearls to highlight points. It includes USMLE-style comprehension questions with each case. It also offers a primer on how to approach the basic sciences.
Outstanding Package Offer! Dipiro, Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach 8/e is the most widely-used and comprehesive pharmacotherapy textbook. Features include: Expanded evidence based recommendations throughout Web based chapters Additional coverage of palliative care Pain medicine The DiPiro text is is also packaged with the Schwinghammer, Pharmacotherapy Casebook! The casebook sharpens probelm-solving and clinical decision-making skills you need to identify and resolve commonly encountered drug problems. More than 155 patient cases--5 new in the 8/e makes the perfect study companion to the 8/e of Dipiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. Get the Dipiro text, plus casebook package and ACE your Pharmacotherapy Course!
Pharmacy Practice in Developing Countries: Achievements and Challenges offers a detailed review of the history and development of pharmacy practice in developing countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. Pharmacy practice varies substantially from country to country due to variations in needs and expectations, culture, challenges, policy, regulations, available resources, and other factors. This book focuses on each country's strengths and achievements, as well as areas of weakness, barriers to improvement and challenges. It sets out to establish a baseline for best practices, taking all of these factors into account and offering solutions and opportunities for the future. This book ...
Learn the essential principles of pharmacotherapy and how they apply to today’s healthcare Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice, Third Edition uses a solid evidence-based approach to teach you how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. This trusted text provides everything you need to gain an in-depth understanding of the principles essential optimal pharmacotherapy of disease. In order to be as clinically relevant as possible, the disease states and treatments discussed focus on disorders most often seen in clinical practice. Chapters were written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians who are authorities in their fields. The book opens with an introductory chapter followed by chapters on pediatrics, geriatrics, and palliative care. The remainder of the text consists of ninety-eight disease-based chapters that review etiology, epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation, followed by therapeutic recommendations for drug selection, dosing, and patient monitoring.