Title:
Pharmacology for health professionals
Author:
Bryant, Bronwen Jean, author.
ISBN:
9780729542753
Personal Author:
Edition:
5th edition.
Physical Description:
pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 28 cm
General Note:
Previous edition: 2015.
Contents:
Unit 1: Introduction to Pharmacology -- Chapter 1: Drugs and medicines -- Chapter 2: Legal, clinical and ethical foundations of pharmacotherapy -- Chapter 3: Over-the-counter drugs and complementary therapies -- Unit 2: Principles of Pharmacology -- Chapter 4: Molecular drug targets and pharmacodynamics -- Chapter 5: Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion -- Chapter 6: Pharmacogenetics and individualised drug therapy -- Chapter 7: Pharmacokinetics and dosing regimen -- Chapter 8: Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions -- Unit 3: Drugs Affecting the Peripheral Nervous System -- Chapter 9: Overview of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems: drugs affecting cholinergic transmission -- Chapter 10: Overview of the sympathetic nervous system and drugs affecting noradrenergic transmission -- Unit 4: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous System -- Chapter 11: Central nervous system overview and anaesthetics -- Chapter 12: Analgesics -- Chapter 13: Antianxiety, sedative and hypnotic drugs -- Chapter 14: Antiepileptic drugs
Chapter 15: Psychotropic agents -- Chapter 16: Central nervous system stimulants -- Chapter 17: Drugs for neurodegenerative disorders and headache -- Chapter 18: Drugs affecting the eye and ear -- Chapter 19: Drug dependence and social pharmacology -- Unit 5: Drugs Affecting the Heart and Vascular System -- Chapter 20: Drugs affecting cardiac function -- Chapter 21: Drugs affecting vascular smooth muscle -- Chapter 22: Lipid-lowering drugs -- Unit 6: Drugs Affecting the Urinary System -- Chapter 23: Drugs affecting the kidney and bladder -- Unit 7: Drugs Affecting the Blood -- Chapter 24: Drugs affecting thrombosis and haemostasis -- Chapter 25: Drugs affecting the haemopoietic system -- Unit 8: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory System -- Chapter 26: Drugs used in respiratory disorders -- Unit 9: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal System -- Chapter 27: Drugs affecting the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract -- Unit 10: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine System -- Chapter 28: The neuroendocrine system and pituitary gland
Chapter 29: Pharmacology of the adrenal cortex -- Chapter 30: Pharmacology of the endocrine pancreas -- Chapter 31: Pharmacology of the thyroid glands and parathyroid glands -- Unit 11: Drugs Affecting the Reproductive System -- Chapter 32: Drugs affecting the female reproductive system -- Chapter 33: Drugs affecting the male reproductive system -- Unit 12: Drugs Used in Neoplastic Diseases -- Chapter 34: Overview of the treatment of cancer -- Chapter 35: Antineoplastic drugs -- Unit 13: Drugs Affecting Microorganisms -- Chapter 36: Overview of antimicrobial chemotherapy and antibiotic resistance -- Chapter 37: Antibacterial drugs -- Chapter 38: Antifungal and antiviral drugs -- Chapter 39: Antiprotozoal, antimycobacterial and anthelmintic drugs -- Unit 14: Drugs Affecting Body Defences -- Chapter 40: Antiinflammatory and immunomodulating drugs -- Chapter 41: Drugs affecting the skin -- Unit 15: Special Topics -- Chapter 42: Drugs in sport -- Chapter 43: Pharmacotherapy of obesity -- Chapter 44: Envenomation and antivenoms.
Abstract:
"Pharmacology for Health Professionals, fifth edition, introduces essential pharmacology principles and concepts required to understand the therapeutic effects and clinical uses of current drugs and medicines. Written for allied health sciences and nursing students and underpinned by current evidence-based medicine, this substantially updated edition continues to cover topics vital to a holistic understanding of pharmacology. These topics include historical, legal and ethical considerations, pharmacokinetics, and the therapeutic applications and adverse effects of current Australian and New Zealand drugs."--Publisher.
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