Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896037509 ISBN 13: 9780896037502

Publisher: Humana Press Inc., 2000

Synopsis

Leading experts in antimicrobial pharmacology comprehensively review - and summarize for rapid access - important drug interactions that occur in the treatment of infectious diseases. The authors explain the mechanisms of drug drug and drug food interactions, examine their clinical significance and consequences, and detail practical clinical approaches to their management. Comprehensive and highly practical, Drug Interactions in Infectious Disease offers health care professionals treating infectious diseases in their daily practice a comprehensive source of quickly accessible information about drug interaction problems, their mechanisms of action, and the best strategies for their management in busy patient care.

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Review

This book provides both a conceptual approach and specific information about drug interactions and should constitute a useful reference for the entire health care team responsible for patient management: nurses, physician assistants, pharmacists, and physicians. For health care providers to produce desired outcomes for their patients, the approach and specific information available in this volume will prove a most valuable resource. - Foreword by Henry Masur MD, Chief, Critical Care Medicine Department, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health provides quick and solid information regarding both pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic drug interactions...The text is suitable for many healthcare professional especially clinical pharmacists and physicians. The information and context within the book would be extremely useful to pharmacy students. Drug Interactions in Infectious Diseases provides not only a vast array of drug interactions, but also the mechanisms behind the interactions as well as the clinical significance of each One of the most interesting chapters is on the antiretrovirals. This chapter encompasses all types of drugs currently used to treat HIV. Techniques on avoiding drug interactions are provided throughout the book. provides the reader with basic strategies in minimizing the potential for drug interactions when selecting various agents. should be added to pharmacy school libraries. For clinical pharmacists and physicians the mechanisms of the interactions described in the text can serve as a tool in guiding treatment strategies of the patient and avoiding detrimental adverse events. We expect enhanced patient outcomes from this book. - Journal of Pharmacy Practice

Edition details

• Publisher: Humana Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0896037509
• ISBN 13: 9780896037502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 372
• Editor: Piscitelli Stephen C., Rodvold Keith A.