Clinical Pharmacology

This book is for students, doctors and indeed for all concerned with evidence-based drug therapy. A knowledge of pharmacological and therapeutic principles is essential if drugs/medicines are to be used safely and effectively for increasingly informed and critical patients. Doctors who understand ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: P N Bennett
Other Authors: M J Brown
Format: Printed Book
Published: Edinburgh ; New York Churchill Livingstone/Elsevier, 2008
Edition:10 th ed.
Subjects:
Clinical pharmacology.
Table of Contents:
  • SECTION 1
  • General
  • 1 Clinical pharmacology
  • 2 Topics in drug therapy
  • 3 Discovery and development of drugs
  • 4 Evaluation of drugs in man
  • 5 Official regulation of medicines
  • 6 Classification and naming of drugs
  • SECTION 2
  • From Pharmacology to Toxicology
  • 7 General pharmacology
  • 8 Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
  • 9 Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
  • 10 Drug abuse
  • SECTION 3
  • Infection and Inflammation
  • 11 Chemotherapy of infections
  • 12 Antibacterial drugs
  • 13 Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
  • 14 Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
  • 15 Drugs for inflammation and rheumatological disease
  • 16 Drugs and the skin. SECTION 4
  • Nervous System
  • 17 Pain and analgesics
  • 18 Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
  • 19 Psychotropic drugs
  • 20 Epilepsy, parkinsonism and allied conditions
  • SECTION 5
  • Cardiosespiratory and Renal Systems
  • 24 Cardiac arrhythmia and failure
  • 25 Hyperlipidaemias
  • 26 Kidney and genitourinary tract
  • 27 Respiratory system
  • SECTION 6
  • Blood and Neoplastic Disease
  • 28 Drugs and haemostasis
  • 29 Cellular disorders and anaemias
  • 30 Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
  • SECTION 7
  • Gastrointestinal System
  • 31 Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
  • 32 Intestines
  • 33 Liver, biliary tract, pancreas
  • SECTION 8
  • Endocrine System, Metabolic Conditions
  • 34 Ardenal corticosteroids, antagonists
  • 35 Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabetes agents, obesity
  • 36 Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
  • 37 Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
  • 38 Vitamins, calcium, bone.

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