Pharmacology updates / editor, Jennifer Wilbeck ; consulting editor, Stephen D. Krau.

Foreword: The role of pharmacogenomics: the same medications do not work the same on everyone / Stephen D. Krau
Preface: Pharmacologic therapies: an enduring nursing intervention / Jennifer Wilbeck
Food and Drug Administration approval process: a history and overview / Christopher Ty Williams
Heart failure: overcoming the physiologic dilemma through evidence-based practice / Sheila Melander and Stephen Miller
Platelet inhibitors / Megan M. Shifrin and S. Brian Widmar
Updates on the pharmacologic treatment of individuals with human immunodeficiency virus / Courtney J. Young
Pharmacologic strategies for treatment of poisonings / Eric Roberts and Michael D. Gooch
Pharmacotherapy considerations for the management of advanced cardiac life support / Craig J. Beavers and Komal A. Pandya
Blood transfusion strategies for hemostatic resuscitation in massive trauma / Caroline McGrath
Pain and agitation management in critically ill patients / Julie Stephens and Michael Wright
Immunosuppressive therapy in transplantation / Terri L. Allison
Vaccines and immunization practice / Michael D. Hogue and Anna E. Meador.