Patient Care Management Lab
Patient Care Management Lab

Author: Richard Finkel

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2007-02-01

Total Pages: 526

ISBN-13: 9780781765695

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The Second Edition of Patient Care Management Lab develops and fine tunes pharmacy and pharmacy technician students' skills in reading, evaluating, and filling prescriptions. The chapters correspond to particular disease states, summarizing the key characteristics and concerns with the associated drugs. At the core of the learning experience are patient cases in which students assume the role of the dispensing pharmacist or pharmacy technician. Each case presents a new patient and a new prescription to fill. Students must first assess the completeness of the patient profile and then evaluate possible complications. Each chapter features at least 20 cases. Students also learn how to counsel patients based on their prescription orders and drug and social histories. NEW TO THIS EDITION: All of the prescriptions in the text have been reviewed for currency and revised with the latest information. More than 350 new prescriptions have been added to the book to give students experience with a broader range of drugs. Puzzles and Problems appendix asks students to evaluate 36 prescriptions that are difficult to decipher or, if filled as written, could be harmful. New Answer Key available on the text's thePoint site provides Pharmacy instructors with detailed, suggested responses to each case found within the textbook.

Cardiac Safety of Noncardiac Drugs
Cardiac Safety of Noncardiac Drugs

Author: Joel Morganroth

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-10-10

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1592598846

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Cardiac Safety of Noncardiac Drugs: Practical Guidelines for Clinical Research and Drug Development is designed to present the current preclinical, clinical, and regulatory principles to assess the cardiac safety of new drugs based primarily on their effects on the ECG. Practical guidance to define cardiac safety at all stages of clinical research and drug development are featured and discussed by internationally recognized experts with academic, industrial, and regulatory experience.

Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods: First South Asia Edition_E-book
Henry's Clinical Diagnosis and Management by Laboratory Methods: First South Asia Edition_E-book

Author: Richard A. McPherson

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 1820

ISBN-13: 8131246779

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To interpret the laboratory results. To distinguish the normal from the abnormal and to understand the merits and demerits of the assays under study. The book attempts to train a laboratory medicine student to achievesound knowledge of analytical methods and quality control practices, tointerpret the laboratory results, to distinguish the normal from the abnormaland to understand the merits and demerits of the assays under study.

Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing
Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing

Author: Amitava Dasgupta

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2019-01-10

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 0128156082

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Critical Issues in Alcohol and Drugs of Abuse Testing, Second Edition, addresses the general principles and technological advances for measuring drugs and alcohol, along with the pitfalls of drugs of abuse testing. Many designer drugs, for example, are not routinely tested in drugs of abuse panels and may go undetected in a drug test. This updated edition is a must-have for clinical pathologists, toxicologists, clinicians, and medical review officers and regulators, bridging the gap between technical and clinical information. Topics of note include the monitoring of pain management drugs, bath salts, spices (synthetic marijuana), designer drugs and date rape drugs, and more. - Serves as a ready resource of information for alcohol and drug testing - Ideal resource for making decisions related to the monitoring and interpretation of results - Includes concise content for clinical laboratory scientists, toxicologists and clinicians

Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and the Clinical Laboratory
Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and the Clinical Laboratory

Author: Amitava Dasgupta

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2016-10-17

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 012809334X

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Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and the Clinical Laboratory provides an overview and quick reference to genetic relationships and clinical laboratory information related to the serious public health issue of alcohol and drug abuse. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book discusses the necessary information for health and safety professionals working in public health to learn about complex issues quickly to better help their patients, employees, and others affected by alcohol and drug abuse. Alcohol, Drugs, Genes and the Clinical Laboratory covers the important aspects of drugs and alcohol abuse including genetic aspects along with laboratory methods for analysis of alcohol and abused drugs with emphasis on false positive test results. The book is helpful to healthcare professionals, such as pathologists who oversee alcohol and drug testing, emergency room physicians, family practice physicians who are first healthcare professionals who identify patients susceptible to drug and alcohol abuse, and psychiatrists involved with drug and alcohol rehabilitation programs. It will also be useful to safety professionals who have to assess individuals for workplace responsibilities, ranging from police and recruitment to occupational safety and occupational medicine and public health officials. - Features accessible language for healthcare and safety professionals who are not experts in laboratory procedures - Provides examples from clinical and everyday situations - Explains how to interpret laboratory results and the latest genetic factors regarding drug and alcohol abuse

The Analysis of Drugs in Biological Fluids 2nd Edition
The Analysis of Drugs in Biological Fluids 2nd Edition

Author: Joseph Chamberlain

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1995-09-18

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780849324925

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This new edition focuses on a variety of techniques available for the analysis of drugs in biological fluids. Over 150 figures and tables help to describe the latest advances and give examples of their applications. Current chiral analysis methods as well as discussions on the impact of chirality are described. Practical aspects of bioanalytical work, including many examples of laboratory problems not often reported in the scientific literature, are examined in depth.