Pharmacological basis of acute care [electronic resource] / Yoo Keun Chan, Kwee Peng Ng, Debra Si Mui Sim, editors.
Chan, Yoo Kuen, editor.; Ng, Kwee Peng, editor.; Sim, Debra Si Mui, editor.
2015
RM301.28
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Title
Pharmacological basis of acute care [electronic resource] / Yoo Keun Chan, Kwee Peng Ng, Debra Si Mui Sim, editors.
ISBN
9783319103860 electronic book
3319103865 electronic book
3319103857
9783319103853
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10386-0
Published
Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 265 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-10386-0 doi
Call Number
RM301.28
Dewey Decimal Classification
615.1
Summary
This book is the 4th in a series of Acute Care books written with the aim to address the NEEDS of health care providers when handling the acutely ill patients. Globally it has become apparent that the study of pharmacology and subsequent clinical training has not always adequately equipped young doctors with the ability to administer drugs to their patients safely and confidently, particularly in the critically ill patient. Compounding this issue is the lack of resource material related to these pharmacological concepts contained in one book that can help health care providers to understand and manage drug therapy in the acute situation. In spite of progressively newer and more developed protocols, guidelines, algorithms and many other books addressing the technical aspects of what needs to be done, most health care providers still find it difficult to grasp the basic pharmacological knowledge and rationally deliver the CARE that is required in the acute phase of patient management. The editors/authors have therefore aimed for a book that highlights topics and pharmacological issues pertinent to management of patients in their hour of need. This is a multi-author book but the style has been guided by 3 editors. The editors have used a different perspective? that of normalizing abnormal physiological processes with pharmacological agents? to address the GAPS in a bedside to bench approach. The details are pared down but important principles/concepts are emphasized.
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Includes index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 13, 2015).
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Chan, Yoo Kuen, editor.
Ng, Kwee Peng, editor.
Sim, Debra Si Mui, editor.
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General principles of pharmacology and pharmaceutics
Why drugs are administered
Drug administration
Drug absorption and bioavailability
Drug distribution
Drug elimination
Steady-state principles
Dose response relationship
Pharmaceutical aspects of drugs
Dosage forms, dose calculations and prescription
Drug interactions
Pharmacology of the various body systems
Drugs and the cardiovascular system
Drugs and the respiratory system
Drugs and the central nervous system
Drugs and the liver/ gastrointestinal system
Drugs and the renal system
Drugs and the endocrine system
Drugs and the neuromuscular system
Drugs for the management of pain
Pharmacology in special circumstances
The patient in pain
The pediatric patient
The elderly patient
The obstetric patient
The obese patient
The bleeding patient
The septic patient
The allergic patient
The poisoned patient
Pharmacology of special drugs
Oxygen as a drug
Fluids as drugs
Safety issues in pharmacology
Medication errors.

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