This comprehensive, easy to use reference presents the information needed to prescribe commonly used medications safely and effectively. It consists of two alphabetic listings:commonly prescribed drugs by category and commonly prescribed drugs.
The Top 100 Drugs Pocket Reference Guide serves as a portable reference to learn the essential information for the most commonly prescribed drugs. This on-the-go resource details the brand name, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, dosage form, common use, and other clinical details for each drug. Whether you’re a pharmacy student or healthcare professional, this guide will serve as an effective resource to learn the basic characteristics of the most popular drugs. Drug details include: • Brand Names • Pharmacologic Classes • Mechanisms of Action • Common Uses • Dosage Forms • Dosing Information • Administration Methods • Monitoring Guidelines • Contraindications • Drug Interactions • Adverse Effects • Black Box Warnings
The Top 300 Drugs Pocket Reference Guide serves as a portable reference to learn the essential information for the most commonly prescribed drugs. This on-the-go resource details the brand name, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action, dosage form, common use, and other clinical details for each drug. Whether you’re a pharmacy student or healthcare professional, this guide will serve as an effective resource to learn the basic characteristics of the most popular drugs. Drug details include: • Brand Names • Pharmacologic Classes • Mechanisms of Action • Common Uses • Dosage Forms • Dosing Information • Administration Methods • Monitoring Guidelines • Contraindications • Drug Interactions • Adverse Effects • Black Box Warnings
This book provides health professionals with a quick reference source fore today's most commonly used drugs. The size and weight of the book are designed so it can be carried in a lab coat pocket, uniform pocket, or jacket pocket and used in any practice setting. The book includes 800 commonly used drugs with each listing covering key information on drug names, classes, forms, uses, dosages, and significant alerts.
A comprehensive pocket guide to the PDR offers more than one thousand A-Z entries on prescription drugs and their generic equivalents, including new pharmaceuticals, their therapeutic uses, dosages, interactions, and side effects.
Frequently Prescribed Medications: Drugs You Need to Know is a practical study tool designed to educate and test students about the drugs that are most commonly used in practice, as well as a helpful reference on drug information for health professionals. This comprehensive resource reviews important concepts regarding the use of specific medications and provides clear and succinct information for the drugs that are commonly utilized in clinical practice, ambulatory practice, and hospital practice, including information on prescription, over-the-counter, and natural products. The information provided for each drug includes: - Drug Class - Mechanism of Action - Common Brand Name(s) - Generic Name - Dosage Forms - Indications - Dosing for Each Indication - Initial Dose - Maintenance Dose - Maximum Dose - Renal Dosage Adjustment - Adverse Reactions - Absolute Contraindications - Major Drug Interactions - Pregnancy Category - Key Counseling Points Including helpful end-of chapter review questions, Frequently Prescribed Medications is a user-friendly resource that will aid student comprehension and serve as a valuable reference for future study and practice. This guide provies excellent test preparation for the Top 200/300 Exams, and a handy reference for practicing health professionals. Instructor Resources: TestBank
The answers to all these questions and more are here at your fingertips -- in one up-to-the-minute source. With complete information on the latest remedies for arthritis, asthma, depression, diabetes, and more, THE PDR "RM" POCKET GUIDE TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS "RM" gives you everything you need to know as you work with your doctor to assure the safest, most effective treatment possible. The easy-to-understand drug profiles in this unique consumer guide are drawn entirely from the official FDA-approved information published in Physician's Desk Reference "RM" -- the professional drug handbook to which doctors have turned for more than half a century whenever they need the latest facts. For complete, reliable information on each of your potent prescription medications, there is no better source than THE PDR POCKET GUIDE TO PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.