Clinical pharmacology /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brown, M. J. (Morris Jonathan) (Author), Sharma, Pankaj (Neurologist) (Author), Mir, Fraz (Author), Bennett, P. N. (Author)
Corporate Author: Elsevier Science (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Elsevier, 2019.
Edition:Twelfth edition.
Subjects:
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book.
Table of Contents:
  • Clinical pharmacology
  • Topics in drug therapy
  • Discovery and development of drugs
  • Evaluation of drugs in humans
  • Health technology assessment
  • Regulation of medicines
  • Classification and naming of drugs
  • General pharmacology
  • Unwanted effects and adverse drug reactions
  • Poisoning, overdose, antidotes
  • Drug dependence
  • Chemotherapy of infections
  • Antibacterial drugs
  • Chemotherapy of bacterial infections
  • Viral, fungal, protozoal and helminthic infections
  • Drugs for inflammation and joint disease
  • Drugs and the skin
  • Pain and analgesics
  • Anaesthesia and neuromuscular block
  • Psychotropic drugs
  • Neurological disorders- epilepsy, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis
  • Cholinergic and antimuscarinic (anticholinergic) mechanisms and drugs
  • Adrenergic mechanisms and drugs
  • Arterial hypertension, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction and heart failure
  • Cardiac arrhythmia
  • Hyperlipidaemias
  • Kidney and genitourinary tract
  • Respiratory system
  • Drugs and haemostasis
  • Red blood cell disorders
  • Neoplastic disease and immunosuppression
  • Oesophagus, stomach and duodenum
  • Intestines
  • Liver and biliary tract
  • Adrenal corticosteroids, antagonists, corticotropin
  • Diabetes mellitus, insulin, oral antidiabestes agents, obesity
  • Thyroid hormones, antithyroid drugs
  • Hypothalamic, pituitary and sex hormones
  • Vitamins, calcium, bone.