Category: Drug Interactions

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation: Treatment options and risk assessment, 3rd ed.

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Christof Schaefer, Paul Peters, And Richard K. Miller. Pages: 920 Size: 11.97 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 17 September, 2014
eISBN-13: 9780124079014

Drugs During Pregnancy and Lactation, 3rd Edition is a quick and reliable reference for all those working in disciplines related to fertility, pregnancy, lactation, child health and human genetics who prescribe or deliver medicinal products, and to those who evaluate health and safety risks. Each chapter contains twofold information regarding drugs that are appropriate for prescription during pregnancy and an assessment of the risk of a drug when exposure during pregnancy has already occurred. Thoroughly updated with current regulations, references to the latest pharmacological data, and new medicinal products, this edition is a comprehensive resource covering latest knowledge and findings related to drugs during lactation and pregnancy.

  • Provides evidence-based recommendations to help clinicians make appropriate recommendations
  • Uniquely organized and structured according to drug class and treatment indications to offer authoritative clinical content on potential adverse effects
  • Highlights new research developments from primary source about working mechanism of substances that cause developmental disorders

Learning to Care: The Nursing Associate

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Edited By Ian Peate. Pages: 586 Size: 43.2 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 09 January, 2019
eISBN-13: 9780702077951

Richly illustrated throughout, this comprehensive resource is designed to fully equip Trainee Nursing Associates for their future role as professional healthcare providers with chapters ranging from ‘how to learn’ and essay writing to communication skills, reflective practice, and the role of evidence-based clinical decision making. Basic anatomy and physiology, together with the care and treatment of common disorders, form the second part of the volume. The book includes a wide range of learning features.

 

  • Clear, no nonsense writing style helps make learning easy
  • Provides helpful advice on study skills and essay writing
  • Incorporates the 15 Standards of the Care Certificate
  • Learning objectives at the start of each chapter enable readers to monitor their progress
  • Key Words feature encourage familiarisation with a new vocabulary
  • ‘Self Test’ questions at the start of each chapter allow readers to establish their baseline knowledge
  • Reflection and Critical Awareness features encourage critical thinking and recall of essential information
  • Medicine Trolley feature outlines common drugs, their usage, routes of administration and side effects
  • Case Studies give practical context to core information
  • Care in the Home Setting, At the GP Surgery and Communities of Care boxes illustrate healthcare provision outside the hospital environment
  • Includes anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology of important diseases and disorders
  • OSCEs help trainee nursing associates prepare for examinations
  • Helpful glossary provides definitions of new terms

 

 

The Cardiorenal Syndrome : A Clinician’s Guide to Pathophysiology and Management

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: J. Thomas Heywood, John C. Burnett Jr. Pages: 202 Size: 6.7 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Cardiotext Publishing
Published: 01 December, 2011
eISBN-13: 9781935395546

Cardiorenal syndrome – the presence of significant renal insufficiency and heart failure simultaneously – constitutes one of the most vexing and difficult challenges facing clinicians and researchers today. Given the fundamental role of the kidneys in maintaining fluid and electrolyte balance within the body, it comes as no surprise that renal abnormalities are inextricably linked with congestive heart failure. What is surprising is that recent data have indicated that renal dysfunction is a more critical determinant of mortality than heart failure itself. In The Cardiorenal Syndrome: A Clinician’s Guide to Pathophysiology and Management, experts from around the world clearly outline the current issues associated with this increasingly prevalent condition, provide invaluable insight into its pathophysiology, and highlight the risks, benefits, and rationales for both practical and promising prevention and treatment strategies, including: Diuretics, Role of ACE inhibitors/ angiotensin receptor blockers in renal dysfunction, New “designer” peptides for heart failure, Inotropes and neurohormonal blockade, Dialysis and ultrafiltration, Renal cell therapy, Left ventricular assist device implantation, and Renal and/or heart transplantation. While recognition of the role of renal dysfunction in the progression of heart failure is a pivotal advance, many questions about the scope and impact of this condition remain. This book serves as a touchstone for cardiovascular specialists and internists as they encounter the diverse varieties of cardiorenal syndrome and attempt to navigate the radically different and evolving therapeutic options in their quest to provide optimal individualized care for their patients.

Acute Kidney Injury: Basic Research and Clinical Practice

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Author: Editors, Xiaoqiang Ding, Mitchell H. Rosner, Claudio Ronco. Pages: 202 Size: 4.07 MB Format: EPUB Publisher: Karger
Published: 23 January, 2018
eISBN-13: 9783318063110

Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a complex syndrome that is prevalent among hospitalized patients. In recent years, occurrence of AKI events has risen due to a growing susceptibility of fragile and elderly subjects and an increase in the use of complex procedures such as cardiovascular surgery and imaging techniques. Exposure to potentially nephrotoxic drugs, such as new chemotherapeutic agents, is also proving to be a cause of AKI. This book summarizes recent advances in various settings. A reappraisal of current definitions and staging classifications for AKI in the literature is followed by a description of new criteria for identifying patients at risk and characterizing early kidney damage by using biomarkers. Other important topics include the sequelae of AKI and AKI in special populations such as children, the elderly, and those with cancer. The effects of AKI and its consequences on healthcare expenditures are also addressed from several perspectives. AKI management requires the cooperation of different specialists to optimize outcomes. This book is thus a perfect tool not only for nephrologists, but for every specialist involved in the complicated endeavor of improving patient care.

The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry

Posted onAuthorKieran Lamb

Pages: 875 Size: 3.91 MB Format: PDF Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 12 April, 2018
eISBN-13: 9781119442561

The revised 13th edition of the essential reference for the prescribing of drugs for patients with mental health disorders The revised and updated 13th edition of The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry provides up-to-date information, expert guidance on prescribing practice in mental health, including drug choice, treatment of adverse effects and how to augment or switch medications. The text covers a wide range of topics including pharmacological interventions for schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression and anxiety, and many other less common conditions. There is advice on prescribing in children and adolescents, in substance misuse and in special patient groups. This world-renowned guide has been written in concise terms by an expert team of psychiatrists and specialist pharmacists. The Guidelines help with complex prescribing problems and include information on prescribing psychotropic medications outside their licensed indications as well as potential interactions with other medications and substances such as alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. In addition, each of the book s 165 sections features a full reference list so that evidence on which guidance is based can be readily accessed. This important text: Is the world s leading clinical resource for evidence-based prescribing in day-to-day clinical practice and for formulating prescribing policy Includes referenced information on topics such as transferring from one medication to another, prescribing psychotropic medications during pregnancy or breastfeeding, and treating patients with comorbid physical conditions, including impaired renal or hepatic function. Presents guidance on complex clinical problems that may not be encountered routinely Written for psychiatrists, neuropharmacologists, pharmacists and clinical psychologists as well as nurses and medical trainees, The Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry are the established reference source for ensuring the safe and effective use of medications for patients presenting with mental health problems.