Nurses have an increasingly important role in the use of drugs - they administer drugs, record patient's responses to them, and can now, in certain conditions, prescribe drugs. This text for nurses, now in its 14th edition, gives an account of the drugs commonly used in medical practice. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.
Nurses have an increasingly important role in the use of drugs - they administer drugs, record patient's responses to them, and can now, in certain conditions, prescribe drugs. This text for nurses, now in its 14th edition, gives an account of the drugs commonly used in medical practice. An ELBS/LPBB edition is available.
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75 line drawings, tables, index
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Höhe: 19 mm
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978-0-443-04888-3 (9780443048883)
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Lecturer in Nursing Studies, King's College, London
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The role of the nurse in drug administration; the autonomic nervous system; drugs affecting the cardiovascular system; anticoagulants and thrombolytic agents; drugs affecting the alimentary tract; emetics, anti-emetics and cough remedies; analgesics; hypnotics; drugs used in psychiatry; drugs used in anaesthesia, cardiac arrest and resuscitation, local anaesthetics, drugs affecting the function of voluntary muscle; respiratory stimulants, antiepileptics, and drugs used in Parkinson's disease; the endocrine system; drugs affecting renal function; chemotherapeutic agents and antibiotics; sera, vaccines and the antihistamines; drugs used in the treatment of tropical and imported disease and anthelmintics; the vitamins; drugs used in the treatment of anaemia; drugs used in the treatment of malignant disease; drugs at the extremes of age; adverse reactions to drugs, testing of drugs; drug dependence (drug addiction); drugs and the eye; the local application of drugs; disinfectants and insecticides; poisoning and its treatment; the nurse and the pharmaceutical service. Appendices: weights and measures; glossary of terms used; proprietary and other drug names; information about drugs.
