Hypertension management for the primary care clinician /
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| Language: | English |
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Bethesda, MD :
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction to hypertension
- Clinical highlights
- Overview of hypertension
- Pathophysiology of hypertension
- Clinical highlights
- Pathophysiology of hypertension
- Hypertension as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease
- Initial patient assessment
- Clinical highlights
- Medical history
- Physical assessment
- Laboratory assessment
- Identification of treatment goals
- Clinical highlights
- Identification of cardiovascular risk factors
- Goals of treatment
- Patient involvement when establishing treatment goals
- Patient case
- Pharmacology of antihypertensive agents
- Clinical highlights
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
- Angiotensin II receptor antagonists
- α-andrenergic blocking agents
- beta-andrenergic blockers
- Calcium channel blockers
- Centrally acting α-agonists
- Direct-acting vasodilators
- Diuretics
- Postganglionic adrenergic neuron blockers
- Initiation of therapy
- Clinical highlights
- Nonpharmacologic therapy
- Pharmacologic therapy
- Patient considerations of antihypertensive therapy
- Patient cases
- Education of ambulatory hypertensive patients
- Clinical highlights
- Comprehensive education
- Drug interactions
- Home monitoring of blood pressure
- Educational approaches
- Ongoing evaluation and management of the ambulatory patient with hypertension
- Clinical highlights
- Evaluating responses : frequency of clinic visits
- Assessing progress toward goals of therapy
- Modification of the treatment plan
- Patient case
- Referral to other health care providers
- Clinical highlights
- The care plan : involving other health care professional
- Triage and referral of ambulatory patients with hypertension
- The roles of primary care physicians, specialists, and social workers
- Hypertensive crises : urgencies and emergencies
- Evaluation of therapeutic outcomes
- Clinical highlights
- FDA modernization act of 1997
- Outcomes research
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Decision analysis
- Literature example
- Continuing education