Clinical pharmacy : pocket companion / Alistair Howard Gray [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gray, Alistair Howard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacology.

Pharmacy--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Pharmacy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (568 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Pharmaceutical Press, 2016.

Summary:

An A-Z pocket book containing concise and practical pharmaceutical information for busy clinical pharmacists.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

About the authors

Contributors

A

ABCD2 scoring system

ACE inhibitor-induced cough

Acetylcysteine for nebulisation

Acute kidney injury

Addison's disease

Adrenaline: nebulised

Adverse drug reactions

Anaemias

Angioedema: drug causes and treatment

Antibiotic choice

Antimicrobial allergy management

Antiphospholipid syndrome

Antipsychotics: equivalent doses

Apomorphine

Appetite stimulation

Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance

Artificial saliva

Asthma

Atrial fibrillation

B

Bariatric surgery

Benzodiazepines and `z' hypnotics

Bicarbonate

Body surface area calculation

Bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis)

C

Calcium

Carbamazepine

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting

Child-Pugh score

Chloramphenicol (systemic)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ciclosporin: management and monitoring

Cigarette smoking: calculation of pack-years

Cigarette smoking-drug interactions

Clozapine

Cognitive assessment tools

Constipation

Corticosteroid oral/intravenous equivalence

Corticosteroids (topical)

CosmoFer

C-reactive protein

CURB-65

Cushing's syndrome

Cytotoxic chemotherapy waste

D

D-dimer

Delirium

Depression

Diabetes insipidus (cranial)

Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus: management of hypoglycaemia ('hypo') in adults

Diabetes mellitus: management of acute illness ('sick-day rules')

Diabetes mellitus: monitoring and tests

Diabetic ketoacidosis

Digoxin

Dobutamine

Dopamine

DVLA: advice concerning medication and medical conditions

E

Early warning score

Emollients

Endocarditis

Enoxaparin dosing in unstable angina

Enteral feeding systems and drug administration

Epidural analgesia in the postoperative period.

Epilepsy: therapeutic drug monitoring of antiepileptics in adults

Erythrocyte sedimentation rate

Eye drops: use and care

Eye ointments: use and care

F

Falls: pharmaceutical care

Ferinject

Fluid balance

Food-drug interactions

G

Gastrointestinal bleeding risk management

Gentamicin

Glasgow Coma Scale

Glucosamine

Grapefruit juice-drug interactions

H

Human immunodeficiency virus treatment

Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state

Hypodermoclysis

Hypopituitarism

I

Ideal body weight

Immunoglobulin (normal) for intravenous administration

Inflammatory bowel disease

Inhaler devices in respiratory disease

Insulins

Insulin: variable-rate intravenous insulin infusion

Interstitial lung disease

Iron: guidance on parenteral dosing and administration

K

Kidney stones (renal calculi)

L

Lactose-free medicines

Learning disability: caring for people with learning disability and other vulnerable patients

LipidRescue

Lithium: management and monitoring

Liver disease (chronic)

Liver function tests

Low-molecular-weight heparin

M

Magnesium

Medicines reconciliation

Methotrexate: calcium folinate rescue regimen

Monofer

Mouth ulcers and sore mouth

Multiple sclerosis: symptomatic management

N

Nausea and vomiting

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome

Neutropenic sepsis

Nicotine replacement therapy

'Nil-by-mouth': management of long-term medicines during surgery

Nutraceuticals for eye health

O

Omeprazole: parenteral administration

Oncological emergencies

Opioid comparative doses

Opioid misuse management

Opioid partial agonists

Osteoporosis

Oxygen

P

Pain management

Palliative and end-of-life care

Pancreatitis

Parenteral nutrition: a practical overview

Patient consultation

Patient-controlled analgesia.

Phaeochromocytoma

Pharmacocultural issues

Phenytoin: management and monitoring

Phosphate

Postoperative nausea and vomiting

Potassium

Prescription charge exemptions and prepayment certificates

Protamine

Prothrombin complex concentrates

Pulmonary function tests

Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension

Q

Quinine for muscle cramps

R

Rapid tranquillisation

Renal disease: assessment of renal function

Renal disease: dosing in renal impairment and renal replacement therapy

Renal disease: chronic kidney disease

Renal replacement therapy: haemodialysis

Renal replacement therapy: haemofiltration

Renal replacement therapy: peritoneal dialysis

Rheumatoid arthritis: drugs suppressing the disease process

Rockall score for gastrointestinal bleed

S

Sarcoidosis

Sclerosants for the management of malignant pleural effusions

Serotonin syndrome

Systemic inflammatory response syndrome due to sepsis scoring system

Sodium

Sterile larvae

Stroke and transient ischaemic attack

Suppositories

Surgical pharmacy

Synacthen (tetracosactide) tests

Syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone

Syringe pumps

T

Theophylline

Thunderclap headache

Thyroid function

Tinzaparin dosing in pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis

Tobramycin: monitoring and management

Travel recommendations

Tuberculosis

V

Vancomycin

Venofer

Vitamins and minerals

von Willebrand disease

W

Warfarin treatment and monitoring

Wells score for deep-vein thrombosis

Wells score for pulmonary embolism

Y

Yellow Card scheme

Z

Zinc

Appendices

Appendix 1 Glossary of terms

Appendix 2 Laboratory reference ranges

Appendix 3 Imperial-metric height conversion

Appendix 4 Imperial-metric weight conversion

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 23, 2016).

ISBN:

0-85711-255-4

OCLC:

957126767