Product Description

This is an essential pocket companion for clinical pharmacists providing concise practical information to answer common and less frequent queries quickly and competently. This pocket guide brings together useful facts and information not easily found in other reference sources and currently not available in one text. It complements existing texts used regularly by pharmacists on the wards, in the dispensary and on-call. "The Clinical Pharmacy Pocket Companion" contains over 130 A-Z entries of varying length, from the management of alcohol withdrawal to zinc deficiency. It includes guidance on therapeutic drug monitoring, managing electrolyte disturbances, disease states, per-operative drug management and much more. Numerous tables are included for quick reference and space is provided to record miscellaneous local information or personal comments. Each alphabetical section begins with useful website addresses.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #136458 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 453 pages

Customer Reviews

The best of the clinical pharmacy pocketbooks
This little book is arranged in alphabetical order, with monographs from Acetylcysteine for Nebulisation to Zinc, but it also has an index. Basically, it is a neat, printed version of the messy notebook of weird information that many clinical pharmacists accumulate - the answers to those questions that you get asked relatively often, but the information required isn't easily available. How do you adjust the dose of theophylline if the plasma level is out of range? What do you do with maggots and how many do you need? Guidelines for hypo and hypermagnesaemia? Hypodermoclysis? It's all in here. There are also appendices of medical abbreviations, laboratory reference ranges, imperial/metric height and weight conversions, and a list of useful websites.

This is definitely aimed more at hospital practice than community, and of the three pocketbooks (the other two being the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy and the Churchill Pocketbook: Clinical Pharmacy 2nd ed) I think this is the most useful for clinical pharmacists at all levels. The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Pharmacy would possibly be the most useful for pre-registration pharmacists or newly qualified pharmacists working on the wards for the first time, as it includes more skill-based sections (communications skills, project planning etc).

clinical pharmacy
very useful to Clinical Pharmacists- takes some getting used to, and doesn't have as many links to blood results as expected, but has great comparable tables