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Pocket Prescriber 2014 Summary

Pocket Prescriber 2014 by Timothy RJ Nicholson (Institute of Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK)

This book provides succinct reviews of 500 of the most commonly prescribed drugs. Each entry covers key prescribing information and provides information on safety issues, warnings, drug errors, and adverse effects. The book supplies practical guidance on drug selection and includes prescribing protocols and guidelines, information for complicated prescriptions, and concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies. It includes the new European Resuscitation Council algorithms and clinically useful reminders of basic pharmacology. This concise, up-to-date prescribing guide contains all the must-have information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students need at their fingertips.

Table of Contents

Common/useful drugs
Drug selection
Antibiotics
Hypertension management
Asthma
Analgesia
Palliative care and subcutaneous pumps
Antiemetics
Alcohol withdrawal
Antidepressants
How to prescribe
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Thrombolysis
Controlled drugs
Miscellaneous
Intravenous fluids
Steroids
Sedation/sleeping tablets
Benzodiazepines
Combined hormonal contraception
Side effect profiles
Cytochrome P450
Medical emergencies
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS)
Acute LVF
Accelerated hypertension
Atrial fibrillation
Acute asthma
COPD exacerbation
Pulmonary embolism
Acute upper GI haemorrhage
Sepsis (severe or septic shock)
Epilepsy
DKA
HONK
Glucose
Thyrotoxic crisis
Myxoedema coma
Addisonian crisis
Electrolyte disturbances
Overdoses
Reference information
Coma
Cognitive impairment
Useful formulae
Common laboratory reference values
Index

Additional information

GOR007381870
9781482241310
1482241315
Pocket Prescriber 2014 by Timothy RJ Nicholson (Institute of Psychiatry, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Inc
20140502
308
N/A
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