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The internal medicine clerkship resource that everyone is talking about
Impress on the wards and score on the clerkship and shelf exams!
- Thoroughly reviewed and revised to provide the high yield information you need in a format that facilitates learning and not just memorization
- Based on the clerkship’s core competencies and presented in the accessible First Aid series format
- Hundreds of high-yield topics you’ll find on the shelf exams and the USMLE Step 2 CK
- Reviewed by medical students who aced the clerkship
- NEW diagnostic algorithms, as well as expanded content on medical management, pathophysiology, and diagnosis and treatment
- NEW content on core areas, including ophthalmology, renal and acid-base disorders, and ambulatory medicine
- NEW full-color images, illustrations diagrams, and flow charts
Summary boxes highlight high-yield information needed for exam success
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Integrate the 3Ps for a real-world, holistic approach to nursing care.
This first-of-its-kind text integrates the 3 Ps—pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical assessment—into an integrative whole that reflects the real-world of how students learn and nurses practice. This groundbreaking approach promotes a deeper understanding of these three essential and often challenging content areas, paralleling the importance of integration in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care.
Its lifespan approach features six major population-based sections cover the key conditions and disorders that nurses are likely to encounter in practice, reviewing the important pathophysiology, pharmacology, and physical exam and assessment information relative to each disorder. Each section concludes with a case study that presents a new disorder relative to the population in that section, reinforcing the authors’ application-focused approach and developing must-have critical-thinking skills.
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Now in its sixth edition, the Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care is the essential guide to using drugs safely and effectively in the intensive care setting. The book is split into two sections: an A-Z guide to the drugs available, and concise notes on the key topics and situations faced on a daily basis. The A-Z section provides succinct information on each drug including uses, limitations, administration directions and adverse effects. The second section details practice guidelines such as insulin therapy, Parkinson’s disease therapy when nil-by-mouth, and drug dosing in renal failure. This revised edition includes seventeen new drug monographs and covers several new topics, including blood glucose management. A colour chart showing drug compatibility for intravenous administration is included at the back of the book. Presented in a concise, compact format, this book is an invaluable resource for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals caring for critically ill patients.
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Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine 2/e (Flexicover) (Oxford Medical Handbooks) by Chris Johnson (2015-05-21)
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The Art, Science and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding 5th Edition
Compounding has always been part of pharmacy practice. Today, the need for compounding is growing, with the prevalence of drug shortages, outsourcing of compounding services by hospitals, and patients’ need for individualized preparations. Compounding pharmacies now have the opportunity to obtain accreditation. The Art, Science, and Technology of Pharmaceutical Compounding presents in a logical and progressive format all the information that pharmacists and student pharmacists need to understand the purpose and processes of compounding. Author Loyd V. Allen Jr., the preeminent expert, covers basic guidelines, economic and technical factors that compounding pharmacists must consider, and all aspects of good manufacturing practices for compounded medications. In this fifth edition, all chapters have been updated and several significantly revised—particularly “Compounding with Hazardous Drugs”—and three new chapters have been added: “Pharmaceutical Compounding Errors,” “Foams,” and “Compounding with Special Ingredients.” Information on the new law affecting compounding, the Drug Quality and Security Act, is incorporated throughout the book. Chapter 13 now includes information on compounding “films.”
KEY FEATURES:
The initial chapters describe the requisite facilities and equipment, record keeping, calculations, and quality control.
Three new chapters: “Pharmaceutical Compounding Errors,” “Foams,” and “Compounding with Special Ingredients.”
Fifteen chapters are devoted to the compounding of each dosage form in turn, from powders and granules to injectables.
Additional chapters cover veterinary compounding, compounding for special populations, compounding for specific procedures, compounding for clinical studies, compounding cosmetics, compounding with hazardous drugs, and compounding in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack.
Nine appendices provide essential information on the compounding process and examples of standard operating procedures.
The necessary ingredients and steps are listed for compounding more than 200 sample formulations, including bases, vehicles, and ingredient-specific preparations.
Updated throughout, including information on the new Drug Quality and Security Act.
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Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses Eighteenth Edition
Perfect for this student nurse!“Seriously, I love this book. It has already helped me ace 2 assignments! Definitely a must-have for student nurses.”—Amy L., Online Student Reviewer
SAFETY FIRST WITH ‘CURE & CARE’!
Davis’s Drug Guide for Nurses®, Eighteenth Edition delivers everything you need to administer medications safely across the lifespan—643 well-organized monographs encompassing hundreds of generic drugs and thousands of trade names. Its nursing-focused Cure & Care’ approach explains what the drug does and describes what the nurse does and how the nursing process relates to the pharmacotherapeutics.
BONUS! FREE DIGITAL ACCESS
An access code inside new, printed texts unlocks your one-year, FREE 1-year subscription to DrugGuide.com, Davis’s Drug Guide Online, powered by Unbound Medicine, information on more than 5,000 trade names and generic drugs, as well as audio pronunciations and color photographs, all updated regularly.
LIFE-SAVING GUIDANCE AT A GLANCE
- In-depth coverage of patient safety, red tab for high-alert medications, red, capitalized letters for life-threatening side effects, and REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies) icon
- Special considerations for patient populations
- Icon highlighting pharmacogenomic content
- IV administration coverage
- Patient and family teaching guidance
- Canadian-specific content identified with a maple leaf icon
FREE ONLINE LEARNING, CARE PLANNING & PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLS
- Audio Pronunciation Library of 1,200+ drug names
- Tutorials with self-tests, Preventing Medication Errors and Psychotropic Drugs
- Calculators for body mass index (BMI), metric conversions, IV drip rates, dosage/KG and Fahrenheit/Celsius.
- Interactive Case Studies, each followed by a series of questions
- Eight audio podcasts covering must-know information, concepts, and considerations for safe drug administration
- Video clips illustrating the safe administration of medications
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Essentials of Pharmacology for Dentistry (Covering the latest Curriculum) 4th Edition
•The book is oriented to provide core and contemporary pharmacological knowledge, easily assimilated by dental students
•Written as per the syllabus prescribed by the Dental Council of India
•The book is divided into three sections.
•The first describes the general pharmacological principles with which all professionals involved in drug therapy must be conversant.
•The second on systemic pharmacology presents a brief account of drugs acting on various organ systems
•The third section covers antimicrobials and other drugs which the dentists usually prescribe or administer themselves.
•Leading trade names and dosage forms of drugs generally prescribed by dentists are mentioned distinctively.
•A separate chapter covers drug and aids specific for dental care is incorporated
•Another chapter on management and treatment of common medical emergencies is included
•Application of analgesics and NSAIDs in dental pain, local anaesthetics for dental anaesthesia, role of each class of antimicrobials in orodental infections, prophylaxis of postextraction wound infection and endocarditis in patients at special risk are emphasized.
•Eye catching hierarchical drug classification charts which help create pictorial memory
•Latest NACO guidelines for post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) of HIV infection for health workers
•Thoroughly revised and updated chapters, including recently introduced drugs.
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Drug Facts and Comparisons 2014
‘Drug Facts and Comparisons 2014’ contains up-to-date, comprehensive information on over 22,000 Rx and 6,000 OTC items grouped by therapeutic category for ease of comparison.
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Anticoagulation Management: A Guidebook for Pharmacists
In addition to acting as a training guide for pharmacists, pharmacy residents and pharmacy students who seek to practice in areas associated with patients on anticoagulant therapy, the information presented within highlights the growing role of the pharmacist in these contexts. Readers will find useful information on anticoagulant management across all pharmacy practice areas, including the inpatient, ambulatory, emergency services and transitions of care settings. Particular attention is given to summarizing best practices and providing ‘real world’ examples of ways in which pharmacists can be involved in anticoagulation management and the impact of such involvement. In the first major section of the book, each chapter focuses on the role of the pharmacist in the management of medication with a specific type of anticoagulants (e.g. warfarin, heparin and target-specific oral agents) in various healthcare settings. A broader overview of the clinical management of anticoagulation therapy is provided in the second major section, including descriptions of the role of pharmacists in assessing venous thromboembolism risk, ensuring patients receive appropriate prophylactic therapy, and monitoring outcomes.
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