How Drugs Work
Basic Pharmacology for Healthcare Professionals, Second Edition
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-85775-932-7 (ISBN)
Description
Core Themes for Care Assistants is an interactive comprehensive workbook filled with practical activities that can be incorporated into daily work enabling carers to make sense of the main issues emerging from daily practice. Using core themes to reflect common aspects of practice including use of evidence to support clinical practice working in teams communication and using information it provides a clear link to the core units of NVQs SVQs and Open College Network units of learning. This is essential reading for all healthcare assistants and support workers and a key text for training provided in-house or through colleges of further education.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 305 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85775-932-7 (9781857759327)
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How Drugs Work
Basic Pharmacology for Healthcare Professionals
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04/1999
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Radcliffe Publishing Ltd
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Content
Getting a drug into the body - absorption; getting a drug to its site of action - distribution; inactivating drugs - phase 1 drug metabolism; phase 2 - drug metabolism and methods of excretion; receptor function and intracellular signalling; the central role of receptors in drug action; drugs which block enzymes - understanding NSAID therapy in inflammation; the principle targets for drug action; calcium iion for the prescriber; the scientific basis of prescribing for the elderly; antibacterial action and bacterial resistance; how to prevent adverse drug actions; how to predict and avoid adverse drug reactions; getting new drugs to market - licensing medicines for human use.