Amazon.com: Katzung is the book of choice for medical students, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and any other health care student who needs a thorough review of pharmacology. This new edition has USMLE-type questions, case studies, and new information on herbal supplements. --Carolyn Lewis
Product Description: The best-selling review in pharmacology! This high-yield text continues to include the most up-to-date information on all current drugs and covers retrovirals, immunologic agents, and chemotherapies. Features two practice tests with questions and answers in USMLE format.
Product Description: The only pharmacology resource specifically written by and for nurse practitioners, this new edition provides a greater emphasis on prototype drugs while retaining its comprehensive approach to the pharmacology content needed by the primary care provider. New features include prototype drug lists in the coverage of drug classes that receive expanded coverage, detailed patient teaching guidelines, expanded content in both the geriatric and pediatric chapters, a special icon identifying the Top 200 Drugs, and highlighted Clinical Alerts.
Comprehensive coverage is provided of all drugs commonly prescribed and used in the primary care setting.
Prototype drugs are presented first in each drug class, with expanded coverage of these agents.
Clear explanations describe how each drug in a class differs from its prototype.
Detailed information shows how to provide effective patient teaching, as well as how to gain patient compliance.
Chapters focus on the practitioner's role in patient teaching, drug action, and drug therapy.
Online Resources are provided at the end of each chapter.
The Top 200 Drugs are described according to the number of U.S. prescriptions dispensed.
Five new units improve the organization of material: Renal/Genitourinary Agents (Unit 8); Psychotropic Agents (Unit 11); Endocrine Agents (Unit 12); Female Reproductive Agents (Unit 13); and Health Promotion (Unit 15).
New chapters examine over-the-counter medications, compliance and the therapeutic experiment, overview of the nervous system, substance abuse, treatment of common infections, weight management, and complementary and alternative treatments.
Reorganized and redesigned format and headings are more consistent and easy to follow.
Content has been expanded in the geriatric and pediatric "special populations" chapters (Ch. 6 and 7).
More concise coverage of disease processes features clearer ties to the Mechanism of Action sections.
25 new figures have been added to the pathophysiology and Mechanisms of Action sections.
A Table of Common Interactions is included on the inside of the back cover.
Product Description: This convenient, money-saving package is a must-have for nursing students! It includes Lehne's: Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 6th edition text & Study Guide for Pharmacology for Nursing Care, 6th edition.
Long established as the gold standard in the field, Casarett & Doull's Toxicology equips you with an unsurpassed understanding of modern toxicology, including the principles, concepts, mechanisms, and modes of thought that are the foundation of the discipline. The new edition features many new contributors, new content on chemical terrorism, and is updated throughout.
Product Description: The Merck Index is a one-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals that contains more than 10,000 monographs. Each monograph in this authoritative reference source is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds.
Compounds included:
• human and veterinary drugs
• biotech drugs and monoclonal antibodies
• substances used for medical imaging
• biologicals and natural products
• plants and traditional medicines
• nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals
• agriculturals, pesticides and herbicides
• Organic chemicals used in research
• Food additives and supplements
• dyes, colors and indicators
• environmentally significant substances
Information provided:
• chemical, common and generic names
• Over 15,000 trademarks and associated companies
• CAS Registry Numbers for over 12,000 compounds
• Over 8,500 chemical structures
• molecular formulae, weights and percentage composition
• capsule statements identifying compound classes and scientific significance
• scientific and patent literature references
• physical and toxicity data
• therapeutic and commercial uses
• caution and hazard information
In addition, there are more than 700 new and completely revised monographs, thousands of new references, trademarks and uses added to existing monographs. Now includes a companion CD-ROM which features 989 monographs no longer available in print, organic name reactions, supplemental tables and a new user interface for user-friendly searching.
Features of the CD:
Searchable by keywords, references, and numerical properties
Search the complete contents of the 14th edition, plus nearly a thousand monographs archived from previous editions
Comes with a free one-year subscription to the Merck Index Internet Edition
Windows-compatible CD powered by CambridgeSoft's ChemFinder
Extensively revised supplemental tables now including acronyms, vaccines, and physical constants
More than 70 pages of hard to find information in one easy-to-use place
Product Description: Winner of the 2006 AMWA Book Awards Physicians Category, An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine is a much-needed resource for individuals practicing in this challenging field. It takes a novel approach, describing in detail the best and most current methods including initial patient evaluation, generation of differential diagnoses, problem-solving and management of challenging conditions based on presenting symptoms. Unlike other textbooks, in which the diagnosis is known, this textbook approaches clinical problems as clinicians approach patients - without full knowledge of the final diagnosis. It provides an understanding of how to approach patients with undifferentiated conditions, ask the right questions, gather historical data, utilize physical examination skills and order and interpret laboratory and radiographic tests. It provides current management and disposition strategies with controversies presented, including pearls and summary points for each topic covered. The book is multi-author, each contributor chosen because of a track record in teaching as well as being internationally recognised experts in the specialty.
Book Description: An Introduction to Clinical Emergency Medicine is a newly-conceived textbook, focusing on the skills necessary to provide emergency care, aimed primarily at medical students. Emergency health care professionals, such as technicians, prehospital care providers, physician assistants, nurses and nurse practitioners will find this book stimulating and tremendously valuable as well.
Product Description: We all know that better health doesn't come from one magical, cure-all pill. But what you should know is that it can come from readily available, over-the-counter enzyme supplements. Tom Bohager's Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes offers simple, natural methods for improving your health dramatically without dramatic changes in lifestyle. Bohager's quick course explains how to use enzymes for general god health and to treat specific ailments. As health care costs in the United States soar, more and more people are interested in improving their health through safe, affordable, noninvasive, nonprescription remedies. Enzymes in particular are gaining popularity because of their proven effectiveness and ease of use. For readers interested in improving digestion, strengthening the immune system, restoring energy levels, slowing the aging process, or treating common maladies, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes is the quick, easy-action guide to optimal health.
Product Description: Once considered the domain of the physician, the field of radiology, and the patient information that could be obtained from an understanding of it, is now becoming more widely recognized as pertinent to the health professional's practice. Written for the non-radiologist, Lynn McKinnis's text grounds both students and practicing clinicians in the basic principles of imaging, radiographic evaluation of both normal and pathologic bone, and fractures. The author uses a systems approach, organizing chapters by major regions of human anatomy to providing reference points when viewing patient films.
Product Description: Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; in that same year, the United States accounted for 66 percent of the global antidepressant market. In Comfortably Numb, Charles Barber provides a much-needed context for this disturbing phenomenon.
Barber explores the ways in which pharmaceutical companies first create the need for a drug and then rush to fill it, and he reveals that the increasing pressure Americans are under to medicate themselves (direct-to-consumer advertising, fewer nondrug therapeutic options, the promise of the quick fix, the blurring of distinction between mental illness and everyday problems). Most importantly, he convincingly argues that without an industry to promote them, non-pharmaceutical approaches that could have the potential to help millions are tragically overlooked by a nation that sees drugs as an instant cure for all emotional difficulties.
Here is an unprecedented account of the impact of psychiatric medications on American culture and on Americans themselves.
Product Description: These quick and convenient flash cards will greatly assist students in reviewing and learning the important details about pharmacology. Each of the 269 cards offers a brief question and answer, using a trigger phrase to help students memorize and recall correct responses. BRS Pharmacology Flash Cards is part of a series of portable flash cards covering microbiology, pathology, and now pharmacology. Designed to accompany BRS Pharmacology, these review cards will also help students enrolled in other basic science or pharmacology courses or those preparing for USMLE Step 1.
