Pharmacotherapy Handbook 7th Ed.

Essential Pharmacotherapy Data at Your Fingertips!

Pharmacotherapy Handbook delivers the essential information you need to quickly and confidently make drug therapy decisions for eighty-four diseases and disorders. Featuring a convenient alphabetized presentation, the book utilizes text, tables, figures, and treatment algorithms to make important drug data readily accessible and easily understandable.

Features:

Consistent chapter organization that includes:. Disease state definition,. Concise review of relevant pathophysiology,. Clinical presentation,. Diagnosis,. Desired outcome,. Treatment,. Monitoring

Six valuable appendices, including a new one on the management of pharmacotherapy in the elderly. NEW chapters on adrenal gland disorders and influenza. The ideal companion Pharmacology: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 7e by Joseph DiPiro et al.

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Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach

The benchmark evidence-based pharmacotherapy text-now in full color!

Additional chapters are available online

When it comes to helping you develop a mastery of evidence-based medicine for optimal patient outcomes, no book can match Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach. Like the discipline it covers, the scope of this trusted resource goes beyond drug indications and dosages to include the initial selection, proper administration, and monitoring of drugs.

The book also delves into psychosocial issues that affect compliance … topics related to a patient's ability to understand and manage often-complex therapy… and lifestyle changes that may reduce the need for drug therapy or improve pharmacotherapeutic outcomes. Pharmacotherapy delivers everything you need to provide safe, efficacious drug therapy across the full range of therapeutic categories.

FEATURES

• NEW! Expanded evidence-based recommendations
• NEW! Extended coverage of the timely issue of palliative care and pain medicine
• NEW! Important chapters on Pulmonary Hypertension, Disorders of Calcium and Phosphorus Homeostasis, and Multiple Myeloma,
• Outstanding pedagogy, including:
• “Key Concepts” highlighted in each chapter
• “Clinical Presentation” boxes summarize the most common disease signs and symptoms covered in each chapter
• “Clinical Controversies” boxes-presented in the Treatment sections of the disease-oriented chapters-examine the complicated issues faced by students and clinicians in providing drug therapy
• Clear therapeutic recommendations in each disease-specific chapter
• “Evaluation of Therapeutic Outcomes” boxes in each disease-specific chapter, containing key monitoring guidelines that facilitate the development of a pharmaceutical, nursing, or medical care plan

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Pharmacotherapy Handbook

The second edition of the Pharmacotherapy Handbook provides readers with a portable, readable guide that is integral to any clinical setting. Bold-face type highlights drug names when they first appear and in all closing information. The book's bulleted format helps readers find the information they need immediately. This updated book was designed as a companion text for the fourth edition Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach.

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