Integrated pharmacy case studies / Sally-Anne Francis, Felicity Smith, John Malkinson, Andrew Constanti, and Kevin Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Francis, Sally-Anne, author.

Smith, Felicity, 1958- author.

Malkinson, John, author.

Constanti, Andrew, author.

Taylor, Kevin, 1961- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmacology.

Pharmacy.

Pharmaceutical technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Pharmaceutical Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Over ninety individual cases based on real-life scenarios. Each case draws on the fundamental aspects of pharmaceutical chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutics and therapeutics within a patient-care context.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the editors; List of contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1Gastrointestinal, liver and renal cases; Case 1Uninvestigated dyspepsia; Case 2Inflammatory bowel disease; Case 3Treatment of threadworm; Case 4Liver disease in an elderly patient; Case 5Alcoholic liver cirrhosis; Case6 Liver disease with ascites; Case 7Management of paracetamol overdose with acetylcysteine; Case 8Chronic kidney disease; Case 9 Haemofiltration; Case 10 Renal replacement therapy; 2Cardiovascular cases; Case 1Atrial fibrillation; Case 2Angina management

Case 3Heart failureCase 4Acute coronary syndromes; Case 5Management of hypertension in black patients; Case 6 Cardiovascular (blood pressure) support in an elderly hypotensive patient; Case 7Deep vein thrombosis and warfarin; Case 8Treatment of acute ischaemic stroke; Case 9Secondary stroke prevention; Case 10Drug interactions; 3Respiratory cases; Case 1Asthma; Case 2Treating an acute severe asthma exacerbation; Case 3Nebulised therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Case 4Paediatric cystic fibrosis; Case 5 Cough; 4Central nervous system cases

Case 1Types of anxiety, their treatment and associated issuesCase 2Treatment options in schizophrenia - antipsychotics and side effects; Case 3Bipolar disorder and its treatment; Case 4Treatment-resistant depression in a patient on haemodialysis; Case 5Self-medication of depression with St John's wort, a herbal remedy; Case 6Extemporaneous preparation of methadone; Case 7Neuropathic pain; Case 8Differential indicators for migraine and medication-overuse headache; Case 9Epilepsy; Case 10Phenytoin and acute therapeutics; Case 11Drug therapy of Parkinson's disease

Case 12Smoking cessation in community pharmacyCase 13Dementia/Alzheimer's disease; Case 14Dementia and its pharmacotherapy; 5Infections cases; Case 1Cellulitis and meticillin-resistant Staphyloccocus aureus; Case 2Typhoid; Case 3Community-acquired pneumonia; Case 4Urinary tract infection; Case 5Uncomplicated genital Chlamydia trachomatis infection; Case 6Surgical antibiotic prophylaxis; Case 7Diarrhoea and antibiotic treatment; Case 8'Fever with no focus' in a young infant; Case 9Management of tuberculosis and its complications

Case 10Management of latent TB infection and pharmacy interventionsCase 11Influenza; Case 12Chronic hepatitis C; Case 13Primary HIV infection; Case 14Immunisations against infectious diseases and malaria chemoprophylaxis; 6Endocrinology cases; Case 1Insulin pump use in a child; Case 2Hypoglycaemia during insulin therapy; Case 3Type 2 diabetes mellitus; Case 4Serious lactic acidosis induced by metformin; Case 5An unusual case of Cushing's syndrome; Case 6Addisonian crisis; Case 7Hypothyroidism; Case 8Osteoporosis in a younger woman; Case 9Osteoporosis in an elderly woman

Case 10Treatment for hypercalcaemia

Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857110459

0857110454

OCLC:

912238279