This text emphasizes understanding over memorization to effectively present the "big picture" through the use of drug prototypes, large and small print, and special foundational chapters that cover principles related to each body system. At the end of each chapter, a summary of major nursing implications also helps you apply the material to real-world situations. The accompanying companion CD-ROM features audio and printable key points that you can download to a CD or MP3 player. The CD-ROM also features 700 NCLEX® examination-style multiple-choice review questions, animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects, flash cards, and numerous electronic calculators.
Key Features
- UNIQUE! Summaries of Major Nursing Implications at the end of each chapter help you understand how to apply concepts to clinical practice in an easy-to-understand format.
- A prototype drug approach uses one drug within each drug family that characterizes all members of its group to give you the knowledge you need to learn not only about related drugs currently on the market, but also about those drugs that will be released once the student begins practice.
- Uses large print to identify essential "need-to-know" information and small print to identify "nice-to-know" information.
- Concise drug summary tables present quick reference to detailed information on individual drugs, including class, generic and trade names, dosages, routes, and indications.
- End-of-chapter Key Points are summarized in a bulleted format to facilitate your review of the most important concepts in each chapter.
- Patient and family teaching content is highlighted to emphasize this key content and provide you with critical information to include in teaching patients about drugs and effects and stresses points for educating family members when they will be helping to care for the patient.
- Provides Anatomy and Physiology and Pathophysiology reviews at the beginning of chapters to help you understand the relationships pharmacology and the biologic systems that drugs influence.
- A comprehensive collection of appendixes includes a concise overview of Canadian drug information, gender-related drugs, drug administration techniques, normal laboratory values, and much more.
- Companion CD-ROM features 700 NCLEX examination-style multiple-choice review questions, animations depicting drug mechanisms and effects, flash cards, key points, and numerous electronic calculators.
New to This Edition
- Includes numerous new drugs and formulations recently approved by the FDA to keep you current with today's drug therapy practice.
- Special Interest Topic boxes address late-breaking issues in pharmacology that have recently emerged in the media so you can learn the current events that may affect them in practice.
- Extensive revision to the Cancer Chemotherapy unit provides you with up-to-date information on new drug therapy in this complex and rapidly changing area of practice.
- Companion CD-ROM features audio and printable key points that you can download to a CD or MP3 player to listen to and review at their leisure.
- Additional full-color graphics illustrate how drugs work in the body and depict key pharmacologic principles.
Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
- 1. Orientation to Pharmacology
- 2. Application of Pharmacology in Nursing Practice
- 3. Drug Regulation, Development, Names, and Information
II. BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PHARMACOLOGY
- 4. Pharmacokinetics
- 5. Pharmacodynamics
- 6. Drug Interactions
- 7. Adverse Drug Reactions and Medication Errors
- 8. Individual Variation in Drug Responses
III. DRUG THERAPY ACROSS THE LIFESPAN
- 9. Drug Therapy During Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding
- 10. Drug Therapy in Pediatric Patients
- 11. Drug Therapy in Geriatric Patients
IV. PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DRUGS
Introduction
- 12. Basic Principles of Neuropharmacology
- 13. Physiology of the Peripheral Nervous System
Cholinergic Drugs
- 14. Muscarinic Agonists and Antagonists
- 15. Cholinesterase Inhibitors and Their Use in Myasthenia Gravis
- 16. Drugs That Block Nicotinic Cholinergic Transmission: Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Ganglionic Blocking Agents
Adrenergic Drugs
- 17. Adrenergic Agonists
- 18. Adrenergic Antagonists
- 19. Indirect-Acting Antiadrenergic Agents
V. CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DRUGS
Introduction
- 20. Introduction to Central Nervous System Pharmacology
Drugs for Neurodegenerative Disorders
- 21. Drugs for Parkinson's Disease
- 22. Alzheimer's Disease
- 23. Drugs for Multiple Sclerosis
Neurologic Drugs
- 24. Drugs for Epilepsy
- 25. Drugs for Muscle Spasm and Spasticity
Drugs for Pain
- 26. Local Anesthetics
- 27. General Anesthetics
- 28. Opioid (Narcotic) Analgesics, Opioid Antagonists, and Nonopioid Centrally Acting Analgesics
- 29. Pain Management in Patients with Cancer
- 30. Drugs for Headache
Psychotherapeutic Drugs
- 31. Antipsychotic Agents and Their Use in Schizophrenia
- 32. Antidepressants
- 33. Drugs for Bipolar Disorder
- 34. Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs
- 35. Management of Anxiety Disorders
- 36. Central Nervous System Stimulants and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Drug Abuse
- 37. Drug Abuse I: Basic Considerations
- 38. Drug Abuse II: Alcohol
- 39. Drug Abuse III: Major Drugs of Abuse (Other Than Alcohol)
VI. DRUGS THAT AFFECT FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE BALANCE
- 40. Diuretics
- 41. Agents Affecting the Volume and Ion Content of Body Fluids
VII. DRUGS THAT AFFECT THE HEART, BLOOD VESSELS, AND BLOOD
- 42. Review of Hemodynamics
- 43. Drugs Acting on the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System
- 44. Calcium Channel Blockers
- 45. Vasodilators
- 46. Drugs for Hypertension
- 47. Drugs for Heart Failure
- 48. Antidysrhythmic Drugs
- 49. Prophylaxis of Coronary Heart Disease: Drugs Lower that LDL Cholesterol Levels
- 50. Drugs for Angina Pectoris
- 51. Anticoagulant, Antiplatelet, and Thrombolytic Drugs
- 52. Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction
- 53. Drugs for Hemophilia
- 54. Drugs for Deficiency Anemias
- 55. Hematopoietic Growth Factors
VIII. DRUGS FOR ENDOCRINE DISORDERS
- 56. Drugs for Diabetes Mellitus
- 57. Drugs for Thyroid Disorders
- 58. Drugs Related to Hypothalamic and Pituitary Function
- 59. Drugs for Disorders of the Adrenal Cortex
IX. WOMEN'S HEALTH
- 60. Estrogens and Progestins: Basic Pharmacology and Noncontraceptive Applications
- 61. Birth Control
- 62. Drug Therapy of Infertility
- 63. Drugs that Affect Uterine Function
X. MEN'S HEALTH
- 64. Androgens
- 65. Drugs for Erectile Dysfunction and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
XI. ANTI-INFLAMMATORY, ANTIALLERGIC, AND IMMUNOLOGIC DRUGS
- 66. Review of the Immune System
- 67. Pediatric Immunization
- 68. Immunosuppressants
- 69. Antihistamines
- 70. Cyclooxygenase Inhibitors: Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs and Acetaminophen
- 71. Glucocorticoids in Nonendocrine Diseases
XII. DRUGS FOR BONE AND JOINT DISORDERS
- 72. Drug Therapy of Rheumatoid Arthritis
- 73. Drug Therapy of Gout
- 74. Drugs Affecting Calcium Levels and Bone Mineralization
XIII. RESPIRATORY TRACT DRUGS
- 75. Drugs for Asthma
- 76. Drugs for Allergic Rhinitis, Cough, and Colds
XIV. GASTROINTESTINAL DRUGS
- 77. Drugs for Peptic Ulcer Disease
- 78. Laxatives
- 79. Other Gastrointestinal Drugs
XV. NUTRITION
- 80. Vitamins
- 81. Drugs for Obesity
XVI. CHEMOTHERAPY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
- 82. Basic Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy
- 83. Drugs That Weaken the Bacterial Cell Wall I: Penicillins
- 84. Drugs That Weaken the Bacterial Cell Wall II: Cephalosporins, Carbapenems, Vancomycin, Aztreonam, Teicoplanin and Fosfomycin
- 85. Bacteriostatic Inhibitors of Protein Synthesis: Tetracyclines, Macrolides, and Others
- 86. Aminoglycosides: Bactericidal Inhibitors of Protein Synthesis
- 87. Sulfonamides and Trimethoprim
- 88. Drugs Therapy of Urinary Tract Infections
- 89. Antimycobacterial Agents: Drugs for Tuberculosis, Leprosy, and Mycobacterium avium Complex Infection
- 90. Miscellaneous Antibacterial Drugs: Fluoroquinolones, Metronidazole, Daptomycin, Rifampin, Bacitracin, and Polymyxins
- 91. Antifungal Agents
- 92. Antiviral Agents I: Drugs for Non-HIV Viral Infections
- 93. Antiviral Agents II: Drugs for HIV Infection and Related Opportunistic Infections
- 94. Drug Therapy of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- 95. Antiseptics and Disinfectants
XVII. CHEMOTHERAPY OF PARASITIC DISEASES
- 96. Anthelmintics
- 97. Antiprotozoal Drugs I: Antimalarial Agents
- 98. Antiprotozoal Drugs II: Miscellaneous Agents
- 99. Ectoparasiticides
XVIII. CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY
- 100. Basic Principles of Cancer Chemotherapy
- 101. Anticancer Drugs I: Cytotoxic Agents
- 102. Anticancer Drugs II: Hormonal Agents, Biologic Response Modifiers, and Targeted Drugs
XIX. ADDITIONAL IMPORTANT DRUGS
- 103. Drugs for the Eye
- 104. Drugs for the Skin
- 105. Drugs for the Ear
- 106. Miscellaneous Noteworthy Drugs
XX. ALTERNATIVE THERAPY
- 107. Herbal Supplements
XXI. TOXICOLOGY
- 108. Management of Poisoning
- 109. Potential Weapons of Biologic, Radiologic, and Chemical Terrorism
APPENDIXES
- A. Adult Immunization
- B. Guide to Gender-Related Drugs
- C. Pronunciation of Generic Drug Names
- D. Weights and Measures
- E. Normal Laboratory Values
- F. Commonly Used Abbreviations
- G. Techniques of Drug Administration
- H. Canadian Drug Information
- I. Major Drug Classes and Their Prototypes
- J. Very New Drugs and Important New Formulations of Older Drugs
About the Author
Richard A. Lehne, PhD, Formerly Lecturer, University of Arizona College of Nursing, Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Nursing, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 1376 pages
- Publisher: Saunders; 7th edition (2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1416062491
- ISBN-13: 978-1416062493
- Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 8.8 x 2.1 inches
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