Pharmacotherapy Handbook, Eighth Edition

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Wells B, DiPiro J, Schwinghammer T, DiPiro C

The Pharmacotherapy Handbook offers essential drug data in a concise, carry-anywhere format. This eighth edition of this essential reference provides practitioners and students with the critical information necessary to support drug therapy decision making for more than 140 diseases and disorders.

Featuring a convenient alphabetized presentation, this handy guide utilizes tables, texts, figures, and treatment algorithms to make the information readily accessible and easily understood.


Consistent chapter organization presents:

  • Disease state definition
  • Review of relevant pathophysiology
  • Clinical presentation
  • Diagnosis
  • Desired outcome
  • Treatment
  • Monitoring

The Treatment section usually includes nonpharmacologic therapy, drug selection guidelines, dosing recommendations, adverse effects, pharmacokinetic considerations, and important drug interactions.

Major sections in this edition include:

  • BONE AND JOINT DISORDERS
  • CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS
  • DERMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
  • ENDOCRINOLOGIC DISORDERS
  • GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS
  • GYNECOLOGIC AND OBSTETRIC DISORDERS
  • HEMATOLOGIC DISORDERS
  • INFECTIOUS DISEASES
  • NEUROLOGIC DISORDERS
  • NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS
  • ONCOLOGIC DISORDERS
  • OPHTHALMIC DISORDERS
  • PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS
  • RENAL DISORDERS
  • RESPIRATORY DISORDERS
  • UROLOGIC DISORDERS

ISBN: 978-0-071748-34-6; 2011; 1.176 pages; softbound

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