Isbn: 9798190838480 - handbook of pharmacotherapeutics for advanced practice: evidence-based drug selection, dosing, and monitoring for nurse practitioners and physician assistants (4 risultati)

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Why does a newborn need a larger dose per kilogram than an adult - and a longer gap between doses? Why is the most dangerous moment of a drug interaction often two weeks after the interacting drug is stopped? Why doesn't a raised INR in cirrhosis mean your patient is auto-anticoagulated? And why does under-dosing an anticoagulant buy no safety at all? If those questions gave you pause, you already know the problem. Prescribing errors are rarely errors of pharmacological knowledge. They happen because a step was skipped, a threshold was misremembered, or a number was read from the wrong equation. The Handbook Of Pharmacotherapeutics for Advanced Practice is built to close that gap. This is a reasoning handbook, not a drug list. Every chapter works from mechanism to bedside decision, so you can adapt when your patient falls outside the rule. Part I - Principles that govern everything elseStructure every prescription around four questions that prevent most avoidable harmMaster ADME, receptor pharmacology, and the therapeutic index from first principlesScreen interactions by mechanism site instead of memorising pairsRecognise severe cutaneous reactions, apply the R-ratio, and deprescribe systematicallyUse pharmacogenomic reports correctly - including what the panel didn't testPart II - The patient in front of youAdjust confidently in renal and hepatic impairment, dialysis, and continuous renal replacementDose children by developmental stage, and stop tenfold errors before they reach the patientApply time-to-benefit reasoning so frail patients aren't harmed by preventive drugs they'll never benefit fromPrescribe in pregnancy and lactation without the fear-driven discontinuation that causes most harmPart III - Disease-state prescribingRotate opioids safely and distinguish tolerance from opioid-induced hyperalgesiaApply anticoagulant dose-reduction criteria exactly - the error that runs in both directionsPrescribe antimicrobials by pharmacodynamic target, and steward every courseNavigate respiratory, neuropsychiatric, and gastrointestinal therapy without the common trapsInside this edition15 chapters across 400+ pages50 annotated figures and nearly 70 clinical tables45 worked scenarios with full calculations shown in units105 practice questions with explained answersFive quick-reference appendices, a pharmacological glossary, and a full indexWritten for nurse practitioners, physician assistants, doctorally prepared advanced practice nurses, clinical pharmacists with prescriptive authority, and senior residents consolidating pharmacotherapeutics before independent practice.What makes it different: dose ranges instead of fixed numbers, guidelines named with their year so you can check currency, and honest labelling of where evidence is strong, thin, or contested. Where a trial was underpowered, it says so. You're entitled to know the difference your patients bear the consequences of it. This is an independent work written to supplement, not replace, your formulary, product labelling, and specialty guidelines. Scroll up and click Add to Cart to put clearer prescribing reasoning on your desk - and in your pocket on the ward. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…