The Renal Drug Handbook: The Ultimate Prescribing Guide for Renal Practitioners, 4th Edition - Softcover

Ashley, Caroline; Dunleavy, Aileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909368946 ISBN 13: 9781909368941

Publisher: CRC Press, 2014

Synopsis

First published in 1999, The Renal Drug Handbook has established itself as a universally-trusted, essential resource for healthcare practitioners. Fully updated and expanded to include over 800 drugs, this 4th edition (2014) provides pharmacists with timely and easily-accessible information to support prescribing decisions for patients with renal impairment including renal replacement therapy.

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Review:

The Renal Drug Handbook provides essential information on drug dosing in patients with different levels of kidney function. As in previous editions, the logical format makes it easy to use and simple to follow. Included in this update are over 130 new drugs and a new section on drug metabolism and excretion in each drug monograph. Wide dissemination of this 4th edition (2014) will help healthcare professionals who prescribe and more importantly protect their patients from avoidable harm. Well done to the authors for maintaining this amazing resource. --David C Wheeler, Professor of Kidney Medicine, University College London, and President, Renal Association

About the Author:

Caroline Ashley is the Lead Specialist Pharmacist for Renal Services at the University College London Centre for Nephrology and Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital. She has nearly 25 years' renal experience, and her major areas of interest are transplantation and auto-immune renal disease. Caroline was involved in the development of the Renal National Service Framework, and the NICE guidelines on Immunosuppression in Renal Transplantation, Renal Anaemia, and Acute Kidney Injury. She is the coeditor of both Th e Renal Drug Handbook and the Introduction to Renal Th erapeutics, and sits on the editorial board of the British Journal of Renal Medicine. She has been the Chair of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group since 1996, and was made Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, UCL School of Pharmacy in 2011. Aileen Dunleavy is the Senior Specialist Pharmacist for Renal Services at the University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire and Arran, with 20 years' renal experience. Her major areas of interest are dialysis, anaemia and CKD. She became an independent prescriber in 2008. She is the co-editor of Th e Renal Drug Handbook and has contributed to the Introduction to Renal Th erapeutics, Drugs in Use and Adverse Drug Reactions. She has been a committee member of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group for more than 15 years.

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1909368946
• ISBN 13: 9781909368941
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 264