Synopses & Reviews
Current, reliable, and convenient to use, this companion pocket drug guide provides users with quick-access to pertinent, practical information on the drugs used to treat respiratory and cardiac disease. Concise—yet complete and comprehensive—it features a clinical organization, consistent format, and accessible language. Offers details concerning drug actions, uses and interactions, specific routes, pediatric and adult dosages, and detailed pharmacokinetics, contraindications, and side effects. Bronchodilator Therapy. Mucokinetics and Surfactants. Anti-Inflammatory and Antiasthmatic Agents. Anti-Infective Agents. Cardiac and Renal Agents. Blood Pressure and Antithrombotic Agents. Neuromuscular, Anesthetic, Sedative and Analgesic Agents. For Respiratory Therapists, Nurses, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacists.
Synopsis
Current, reliable, and convenient to use, this pocket-sized handbook is a concise, yet comprehensive, resource that presents the drugs used to treat respiratory and cardiac disease. Using a clinical organization, consistent format, and accessible language, it offers details concerning drug actions, uses and interactions, specific routes, pediatric and adult dosages, as well as detailed pharmacokinetics, contraindications, and side effects.
Features Include:
- Therapeutic drug classifications with specific sections that discuss drugs as they are used clinically.
- Actions, uses, route and dosage, pharmacokinetics, adverse effects, drug interactions and clinical implications for each drug.
- Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
- Convenient take-along pocket size.
Table of Contents
1. Bronchodilators.
2. Secretion control and Surfactant Agents.
3. Anti-Inflammatory and Antiasthmatic Agents.
4. Anti-Infective Agents.
5. Cardiac and Renal Agents.
6. Blood Pressure and Antithrombotic Agents.
7. Neuromuscular, Anesthetic, Sedative and Analgesic Agents.