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Clinical Pharmacology for Nurses

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ISBN-10: 0443054576

ISBN-13: 9780443054570

Edition: 15th 1997

Authors: Trounce

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The author's main aim is to describe how drugs work in relation to disease, and to look at drug treatment from the nursing viewpoint. The book is not too demanding and has been kept succinct for ease of use. It also contains herbal medicine data.
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Book details

List price: $24.95
Edition: 15th
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.75" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English

Contributors
Preface to the Fifteenth Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The role of nurses in drug administration
Nurses and the pharmaceutical service
The autonomic nervous system. Asthma. Migraine
Drugs affecting the cardiovascular system
Atheroma and thrombosis. Anticoagulants and thrombolytic agents
Drugs affecting the alimentary tract
Emetics and anti-emetics. Cough remedies. Respiratory stimulants
Analgesics
Hypnotic drugs
Anaesthetics. Muscle relaxants. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation. Local anaesthetics
Drugs used in psychiatry
Antiepileptics and drugs used in Parkinson's disease
The endocrine system
The pituitary
Hormones affecting metabolism
Hormones affecting reproduction
Drugs affecting renal function
Chemotherapeutic agents and antibiotics
Immunity, sera and vaccines. Antihistamines. Immunosuppression
Drugs used to tread tropical and impaired diseases. Anthelmintics
Vitamins
Drugs used in the treatment of anaemia
Drugs used in the treatment of malignant disease
Drugs in pregnancy and at the extremes of age
Adverse reactions to drugs. Testing of drugs. Pharmacovigilance
Drug dependence (drug addiction)
Drugs and the eye
The local application of drugs
Disinfectants and insecticides
Poisoning and its treatment
Herbal medicines (phytotherapy)
Weights and measures
Glossary of terms used
Proprietary and other drug names
Information about drugs
Index