Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 5th Edition - Edition 5 - By Bronwen Bryant, BPharm (Hons), MSc, PhD, Grad Dip Ed, Kathleen Knights, BSc (Hons), PhD, Grad Cert Tertiary Education, Andrew Rowland, PhD, BSc (Hons) and Shaunagh Darroch, BSc, MPharm,GradCertAcaPrac Elsevier Inspection Copies

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Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 5th Edition,

Edition 5 Includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 5e

By Bronwen Bryant, BPharm (Hons), MSc, PhD, Grad Dip Ed, Kathleen Knights, BSc (Hons), PhD, Grad Cert Tertiary Education, Andrew Rowland, PhD, BSc (Hons) and Shaunagh Darroch, BSc, MPharm,GradCertAcaPrac

Publication Date: 26 Sep 2018

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Pharmacology for Health Professionals, fifth edition, introduces essential pharmacology principles and concepts required to understand the therapeutic effects and clinical uses of current drugs and medicines.

Written for health sciences and nursing students and underpinned by current evidence-based medicine, this substantially updated edition continues to cover topics vital to a holistic understanding of pharmacology. These topics include historical, legal and ethical considerations, pharmacokinetics, and the therapeutic applications and adverse effects of current Australian and New Zealand drugs.

This now includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 5e. Corresponding chapter-by-chapter to the core text, EAQ prepares students for tutorials, lectures and exams, with access to thousands of exam-style questions at your fingertips.

Key Features

Drug Monographs, Clinical Interest Boxes, Drug Interactions tables, and lists of key terms and abbreviations throughout the text help readers to master difficult concepts
Icons highlight discipline-specific content with additional resources available on evolve
Anatomy and physiology integrated throughout
Contemporary figures, tables and illustrations help readers to understand the mechanisms of drug action

Includes Elsevier Adaptive Quizzing for Pharmacology for Health Professionals, 5e

Over 1,950 self-quizzing localised questions and rationales that allows students to advance at their own pace — based on performance — through multiple mastery levels for each chapter
A comprehensive dashboard allows students to view their progress, and identify areas of strength and weakness

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Instructor resources:

Test bank
Solutions to end-of-chapter review questions
Image collection
Comparative 4e vs 4e table of contents

Student resources:

Animations, including drug interactions
Additional Clinical Interest Boxes
Student quizzes
Discipline-specific resources:

Nursing
Midwifery
Paramedic science

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New Features

All content revised and updated with more succinct chapters reduced by approximately 15%
A suite of animations support readers’ understanding of common drug interactions
Key Points boxes provide a snapshot of important information to reinforce readers’ learning
Updated drug names to align with international harmonisation of medicines information and recommendations by the Therapeutic Goods Administration
National and international guidelines are referenced
Expanded ‘Mechanism of Action’ for some drugs and drug classes
Update of therapeutic areas with new drug classes, e.g. cancer chemotherapy, antivirals and cardiac drugs
New information on clinically relevant drug interactions

About the author

By Bronwen Bryant, BPharm (Hons), MSc, PhD, Grad Dip Ed, Honorary Fellow, The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia; Kathleen Knights, BSc (Hons), PhD, Grad Cert Tertiary Education, Professor in Clinical Pharmacology, Flinders University, SA, Australia; Andrew Rowland, PhD, BSc (Hons), Senior Lecturer, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia and Shaunagh Darroch, BSc, MPharm,GradCertAcaPrac, Pharmacologist, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Unit 1: Introduction to PharmacologyChapter 1: Drugs and medicinesChapter 2: Legal, clinical and ethical foundations of pharmacotherapyChapter 3: Over-the-counter drugs and complementary therapies

Unit 2: Principles of PharmacologyChapter 4: Molecular drug targets and pharmacodynamicsChapter 5: Drug absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretionChapter 6: Pharmacogenetics and individualised drug therapyChapter 7: Pharmacokinetics and dosing regimenChapter 8: Adverse drug reactions and drug interactions

Unit 3: Drugs Affecting the Peripheral Nervous SystemChapter 9: Overview of the autonomic and somatic nervous systems: drugs affecting cholinergic transmissionChapter 10: Overview of the sympathetic nervous system and drugs affecting noradrenergic transmission

Unit 4: Drugs Affecting the Central Nervous SystemChapter 11: Central nervous system overview and anaesthetics Chapter 12: AnalgesicsChapter 13: Antianxiety, sedative and hypnotic drugsChapter 14: Antiepileptic drugsChapter 15: Psychotropic agentsChapter 16: Central nervous system stimulants Chapter 17: Drugs for neurodegenerative disorders and headacheChapter 18: Drugs affecting the eye and earChapter 19: Drug dependence and social pharmacology

Unit 5: Drugs Affecting the Heart and Vascular SystemChapter 20: Drugs affecting cardiac function Chapter 21: Drugs affecting vascular smooth muscleChapter 22: Lipid-lowering drugs Chapter 23: Drugs affecting the kidney and bladder

Unit 6: Drugs Affecting the Urinary SystemChapter 23: Drugs affecting the kidney and bladder

Unit 7: Drugs Affecting the BloodChapter 24: Drugs affecting thrombosis and haemostasis Chapter 25: Drugs affecting the haemopoietic system

Unit 8: Drugs Affecting the Respiratory SystemChapter 26: Drugs used in respiratory disorders

Unit 9: Drugs Affecting the Gastrointestinal SystemChapter 27: Drugs affecting the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract

Unit 10: Drugs Affecting the Endocrine SystemChapter 28: The neuroendocrine system and pituitary glandChapter 29: Pharmacology of the adrenal cortexChapter 30: Pharmacology of the endocrine pancreasChapter 31: Pharmacology of the thyroid glands and parathyroid glands

Unit 11: Drugs Affecting the Reproductive SystemChapter 32: Drugs affecting the female reproductive systemChapter 33: Drugs affecting the male reproductive system

Unit 12: Drugs Used in Neoplastic Diseases Chapter 34: Overview of the treatment of cancerChapter 35: Antineoplastic drugs

Unit 13: Drugs Affecting MicroorganismsChapter 36: Overview of antimicrobial chemotherapy and antibiotic resistance Chapter 37: Antibacterial drugsChapter 38: Antifungal and antiviral drugsChapter 39: Antiprotozoal, antimycobacterial and anthelmintic drugs

Unit 14: Drugs Affecting Body DefencesChapter 40: Antiinflammatory and immunomodulating drugsChapter 41: Drugs affecting the skin

Unit 15: Special TopicsChapter 42: Drugs in sportChapter 43: Pharmacotherapy of obesityChapter 44: Envenomation and antivenoms

ISBN: 9780729544160

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