The hands-on guide to practical prescribing / Oliver Jones, Nandan Gautam.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Oliver (Oliver M.)

Contributor:

Gautam, Nandan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drugs--Prescribing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Drugs.

Clinical pharmacology--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Clinical pharmacology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a concise, easy-to-use guide to the practical aspects of pharmacology for junior doctors who are making the transition from studying pharmacology to prescribing drugs for the first time. This new addition to 'The hands-on guide' series brings together the core pharmacological knowledge required by house officers, structured in a way to address the very hands-on, practical aspects of prescribing. This book is not designed to replace the factual drug information in the BNF, but to complement and build upon it, so that The hands-on guide

Contents:

The hands-on guide to practical prescribing; Contents; Abbreviations; 1 General introduction; 2 Practical aspects of how to prescribe; 3 How to use the British National Formulary (BNF) and Monthly Index of Medical Specialties (MIMS); 4 Drug interactions; 5 Monitoring of drugs, overdose and toxicity; 6 Adverse drug reactions and allergies; 7 Prescribing in children; 8 Prescribing in the elderly; 9 Conception, pregnancy and breast-feeding; 10 Surgical patients: the preoperative stage; 11 Intravenous fluids; 12 Nutrition; 13 Analgesia: management of acute pain; 14 The acute surgical abdomen

15 Vascular surgical issues: ischaemia (acute, chronic and prevention)16 Breast problems; 17 Urological problems: benign prostatic hypertrophy, incontinence and infections; 18 Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and the surgical patient; 19 Antibiotic prophylaxis; 20 Bowel preparation; 21 Wounds and abscesses, including dressings; 22 Anticoagulation; 23 Transfusion of blood products; 24 The patient on steroids, the oral contraceptive pill or hormone replacement therapy; 25 Prescribing in organ failure; 26 Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system; 27 Hypertension; 28 Cardiac arrhythmias

29 Airways disease30 Oxygen therapy; 31 Musculoskeletal drugs; 32 Movement disorders and epilepsy; 33 Altered conscious level and stroke; 34 Constipation, diarrhoea and bowel disease; 35 Nausea and vomiting; 36 Gastro-oesophageal reflux and peptic ulcer disease; 37 Insomnia, nocturnal confusion and the aggressive patient; 38 Drug dependency syndromes; 39 Palliative care and the management of chronic pain; 40 Diabetes; Appendix: Sample prescription form; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611308858

9781281308856

1281308854

9780470795996

0470795999

9780470750698

0470750693

9781405140676

1405140674

OCLC:

437218791