Principles and Practice of Pharmacology for Anaesthetists, Hardcover by Calve...
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Principles and Practice of Pharmacology for Anaesthetists, Hardcover by Calve.... Principles and Practice of Pharmacology for Anaesthetists, Hardcover by Calvey, T., Williams, N. E.; Rees, Jackson (FRW), ISBN 1405157275, ISBN-13 9781405157278, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Calvey and Williams (anesthesia and clinical pharmacology, respectively, U. of Liverpool) have added a new chapter on adverse drug reactions for this edition and have completely updated the text to reflect current research and practice. They focus on providing an comprehensive scientific basis as they cover drug absorption and distribution, drug elimination, pharmacokinetics, drug action and interaction, variability in response, intravenous and inhaled anesthetic agents, local anesthetics, drugs that act on the neuromuscular junction, analgesics, pre-medication and anti-emetic drugs, the effects of drugs on the autonomic nervous system, antihypertensives, antiarrhythmic and antianginal drugs, antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs, fibrinolytic agents, corticosteroids and hypoglycemic agents. The illustrations are informative without being intrusive and the authors provide a very good glossary and explanatory list of acronyms. They use international non-proprietary names for generic agents, but the exception of current nomenclature for adrenaline and noradrenaline. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()
