Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This concise review of medical pharmacology is designed to help medical students streamline their study for course review and help prepare for the USMLE Step 1. Each chapter presents specific drugs and discusses their general properties, mechanism of action, pharmacologic effects, therapeutic uses, and adverse effects. Drug lists and two-color tables and figures summarize essential information. USMLE-style review questions and answers with explanations follow each chapter and a comprehensive examination appears at the end of the book.
A companion website offers fully searchable text and an interactive question bank with questions from the book.
Synopsis
BRS Pharmacology is designed for medical students, dental students, and other students preparing to enter the health care professions. It is intended primarily to help students prepare for licensing examinations, such as the USMLE, but can be used for course review or as a supplementary text. This book presents succint descriptions of how drugs act on the major body systems, providing readers with vital information without overloading them with extraneous details. Written with a body systems approach, the book begins with a chapter devoted to the general principles of drug mechanisms, and continues with chapters that detail how drugs act on the major body systems. Other chapters discuss numerous popular drugs, like autocoids, ergots, anti-inflammatory drugs, and immunosuppresive agents. Readers will also learn about drugs used to treat anemia, disorders of hemostatis, infectious diseases, and cancer. Additionally, the text covers pharmacological principles associated with toxicology.
Table of Contents
1: General Principles of Drug Action
2: Drugs Acting on the Autonomic Nervous System
3: Drugs Acting on the Renal System
4: Drugs Acting on the Cardiovascular System
5: Drugs Acting on the Central Nervous System
6: Autacoids, Ergots, Anti-inflammatory Agents, and Immunosuppressive Agents
7: Drugs Used in Anemia and Disorders of Hemostasis
8: Drugs Acting on the Gastrointestinal Tract
9: Drugs Acting on the Pulmonary System
10: Drugs Acting on the Endocrine System
11: Drugs Used in Treatment of Infectious Diseases
12: Cancer Chemotherapy
13: Toxicology
Comprehensive Examination