This is a study of clinical pharmacology, whose subject matter is in a constant state of flux due to variable drug usage in different institutions. The authors present material from the nucleus of their courses in a work designed to be used alongside larger and more detailed textbooks. This text covers drug action on various body systems: drug type; pharmacokinetics and legal and practical aspects of prescribing in a short section. It has been updated to take account of current therapeutic practice and also includes new material on anti-viral drugs including those for the treatment of AIDS. It is a companion volume to Rogers and Spector "Aids to Pharmacology".
Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion;
pharmacokinetics; pharmacogenetics; drugs at the extremes of age; effect of
disease on pharmocokinetics; adverse drug reactions and interaction; drug
development and adverse reaction monitoring; drugs for psychiatric and CNS
disease; analgesics - including terminal care; drugs for cardiovascular
disease; drugs acting on the kidneys; drugs acting on the respiratory system;
drugs for gastrointestinal disease; obesity, vitamins, hyperlipoproteinaemia
and nutrition; drugs affecting the blood; hormones and drugs acting on the
endocrine system; anti-infective chemotherapy; cancer chemotherapy; cancer
chemotherapy; drugs and the eye; drug overdose; drug dependence; legal and
practical aspects of prescribing.
