Essential Prescribing: systems-based guide to the most common drugs in medicine - Softcover

Razan Nour

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911510002 ISBN 13: 9781911510000

Publisher: Scion Publishing Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

<br/>Essential Prescribing is a brand new text aimed at providing medical students with an easy-to-follow overview of the drugs they are most likely to encounter at medical school and as they start their medical careers.<br/> The book benefits from the same landscape format and approach as Scion's bestselling Essential Examination.<br/> Each class of drug is detailed using a common tabular format, based on the following sections:<br/> Examples, Mode of Action, Routes of Delivery, Indications, Cautions and contraindications, Interactions, Monitoring, Side-effects, Patient counselling.<br/> This consistent approach helps the reader quickly find the pertinent information for the common drugs and situations they are likely to come across, so they can become confident of prescribing the correct drugs for the patient in appropriate doses. <br/> The book also features a questions and answers section for the reader to assess their knowledge.<br/> All medical students and foundation doctors now have to prove their prescribing competence by taking the recently-introduced Prescribing Safety Assessment (PSA exam). Essential Prescribing will not only arm the reader with the key knowledge for this assessment, but will also provide them with the core prescribing knowledge they will need as their medical careers progress. <br/><br/> The book is also ideal for Independent Prescriber V300 courses.

Contents

Preface<br/> Acknowledgments<br/> Abbreviations<br/> General prescribing rules<br/><br/> Section I: Prescribing by system<br/> 1. Cardiovascular system<br/> 2. Haematological system<br/> 3. Respiratory system<br/> 4. Gastrointestinal system<br/> 5. Renal system<br/> 6. Endocrine system<br/> 7. Female reproductive system <br/> 8. Male reproductive system <br/> 9. Central nervous system<br/> 10. Musculoskeletal system<br/><br/> Section II: Prescribing by situation<br/> 11. Intravenous fluids <br/> 12. Oxygen therapy <br/> 13. Antibiotics<br/> 14. Analgesia <br/> 15. Emergency drugs <br/> 16. Prescribing in the elderly <br/><br/> Section III: Self-assessment questions and answers<br/> 17. PSA-style questions and answers<br/> 18. Test your knowledge questions and answers<br/><br/> Appendix: Mnemonic acknowledgments<br/> Index

Edition details

• Publisher: Scion Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1911510002
• ISBN 13: 9781911510000
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170