| Description |
1 online resource (112 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; What is Clinical Pharmacology?; 1 Clinical pharmacokinetics; General Overview of Pharmacokinetics; Pharmacokinetics; Drug Clearance; Volume of Distribution; The Half-Life; Oral Availability; Protein Binding; pH and Pharmacokinetics; 2 Factors affecting dosing; Drug Metabolism; Saturable Metabolism; Pharmacogenetics; Dosing in Liver Disease and Other Disease States; Renal Drug Elimination; Dosing in Renal Impairment; Dosing in the Elderly; Dosing in Children; Drugs in Pregnancy; Drugs in Human Milk; 3 Altered drug effect; Adverse Drug Reactions; Drug-Induced Allergy |
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Adverse Drug EventsPreventing Adverse Drug Events; Drug/Drug Interactions; Inducers of Drug Metabolism; Inhibitors of Drug Metabolism; Drug/Food Interactions; 4 Pharmacovigilance; Drug Development; Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM); Drugs Involved in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring; Overdose/Poisoning; Common Poisonings; Pharmacological Aspects of Drug Dependence; 5 Optimal therapeutics; Principles of Drug Action; Applied Pharmacology; Compliance with |
| Summary |
This work is written for medical, nursing, dentistry and pharmacy students as well as junior doctors. It is a guide to the basics of clinical pharmacology and includes simple illustrations and summary boxes to aid rapid access to key facts |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781405146050 |
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1405146052 |
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