Principles and practice of pharmacology for anaesthetists

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Principles and practice of pharmacology for anaesthetists

T.N. Calvey, N.E. Williams ; foreword by Jackson Rees

Blackwell Science, 2001

4th ed

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The aim of this well established text is to provide a comprehensive, scientific account of pharmacology and a practical guide to the use of drugs as it relates to the practice of clinical anaesthesia. It is of considerable value to candidates sitting the FRCA examination, but will also be of use to any practising anaesthetist wanting to brush up his or her pharmacology knowledge. The book is now in its fourth edition and all chapters have been thoroughly updated with these aims in mind. A conscious decision has been made to re-define this book in order that it remains a concise and useable reference. The purely scientific information has been reduced and reorganised so that the book relates much more to the use of drugs in the clinical setting. ideal for FRCA candidates and those taking other postgraduate anaesthesia exams contains plenty of basic physiology and pharmacology so that supplementary reading is not required international non-proprietary names (rINNs) have been used in preference to British approved names (BANs), far more in keeping with international literature in the field; the book has been shortened slightly since its previous edition to help keep the clinical focus

Table of Contents

1 Drug Absorption, distribution and elimination 2 Pharmacokinetics 3 Drug action 4 Drug interaction 5 Variability in drug response 6 Intravenous anaesthetic agents 7 Inhalation anaesthetic agents 8 Local anaesthetic agents 9 Drugs that act on the neuromuscular junction 10 Analgesic drugs 11 Drugs used in premedication and antiemetic agents 12 Drugs and the autonomic nervous system 13 Antihypertensive agents - drugs used to induce hypotension 14 Antiarrhythmic and antianginal drugs 15 Anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs and fibrinolytic agents 16 Corticosteroids and hypoglycaemic agents.

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