Pocket Prescriber 2013

by Timothy Nicholson, Donald RJ Singer

Overview

Pocket Prescriber 2013 is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must-have" information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students need at their fingertips.

Key features:

• A–Z list of the 500 most commonly prescribed drugs with each entry containing the key prescribing information

• Safety issues, warnings, drug errors, and adverse effects
• Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and guidelines
• Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions
• Concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies
• The new European Resuscitation Council algorithms
• Clinically useful reminders of basic pharmacology (e.g., receptor profiles)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444180640
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/30/2013
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	310
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Timothy RJ Nicholson MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCPsych, Honorary Specialist Registrar, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Donald RJ Singer BMedBiol, MD, FRCP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, UK

Table of Contents

Common/Useful Drugs
Drug Selection
Antibiotics
Hypertension Management
Asthma
Analgesia
Palliative Care and Subcutaneous Pumps
Antiemetics
Alcohol Withdrawal
Antidepresssants

How to prescribe
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Thrombolysis
Controlled drugs

Miscellaneous
Intravenous Fluids
Steroids
Sedation/Sleeping Tablets
Benzodiazepines
Combined Hormonal Contraception
Side Effect Profiles
Cytochrome P450

Medical emergencies
Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS)
Acute LVF
Accelerated Hypertension
Atrial Fibrillation
Acute Asthma
COPD Exacerbation
Pulmonary Embolism
Acute Upper GI Haemorrhage
Sepsis (severe or septic shock)
Epilepsy
DKA
HONK
¯ Glucose
Thyrotoxic Crisis
Myxoedema Coma
Addisonian Crisis
Electrolyte Disturbances
Overdoses

Reference information
Coma
Cognitive Impairment
Useful Formulae
Common Laboratory Reference Values
Index