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Trounce's clinical pharmacology for nurses/

Greenstein, Ben, 1941-

Trounce's clinical pharmacology for nurses/ Clinical pharmacology for nurses Ben Greenstein ; nursing adviser: Dinah Gould ; foreword by the late John Trounce. - 17th ed. - Edinburgh ; Churchill Livingstone, c2004. - xv, 459 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

CONTENTS
Foreword.
Preface.
Introduction.
1. The use of pharmaceuticals --
2. The role of nurses in drug administration --
3.Nurses and the pharmaceutical service --
4. The autonomic nervous system, asthma, 5-hydroxytryptamine and migraine --
5. Drugs acting on the heart --
6. Drugs used for blood pressure --
7. Atheroma and thrombosis: anticoagulants and thrombolytic agents --
8. Drugs affecting the alimentary tract --
9. Emetics and anti-emetics, cough remedies, respiratory stimulants --
10. Narcotic analgesics --
11. Anti-inflammatory drugs: treatment of arthritis and gout --
12. Drugs affecting the kidney and renal function --
13. Endocrine system I: The hypothalamus-pituitary axis --
14. Endocrine system II: Hormones and metabolism: thyroid, parathyroid glands, calcitonin and osteoporosis --
15. Endocrine system III: Hormones and metabolism: insulin, diabetes mellitus and obesity --
16. Endocrine system IV: Hormones and metabolism: the adrenal glands --
17. Endocrine system V: Hormones and reproduction --
18. CNS 1: General anaesthesia , local anaesthetics and resuscitation --
19. CNS 2: Epilepsy and Parkinson's disease --
20. CNS 3: Antipsychotics, anxiolytics and hypnotics --
21. CNS 4: Antidepressants and dementias --
22. CNS 5: Drug dependence (drug addiction) --
23. Antibacterial drugs --
24. Antifungal and antiviral agents: treatment of HIV disease --
25. Sera and vaccines --
26. Drugs used in the treatment of malignant disease --
27. Treatment of tropical and imported diseases; anthelmintics --
28. Drugs and the eye --
29. Application of drugs to the skin, nose and ears --
30. Vitamins, iron and treatment of anaemia --
31. Drugs in pregnancy and at the extremes of age --
32. Adverse reactions to drugs: testing of drugs and pharmacovigilance --
33. Disinfectants and insecticides --
34. Poisoning and its treatment --
35. Herbal medicines (phytotherapy) and homeopathy.
Appendix.

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Pharmacology.
Nursing.
Pharmacology, Clinical--Nurses' Instruction.
Clinical pharmacology.

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