ISBN:
9781455736690
Copyright:
2011
Publication Date:
09-28-2010
Page Count:
592
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$67.99
Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource (Retail Access Card), 2nd Edition
by Barbara Gladson, PhD, PT, OTR
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource - Access Card
ISBN:
9781455736690
Copyright:
2011
Publication Date:
09-28-2010
Page Count:
592
Imprint:
Saunders
List Price:
$67.99
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Fully revised and updated, this text remains your students' best resource for understanding how various drugs affect patients during therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation. Using case studies and engaging activities, it helps students apply essential pharmacology information directly to rehabilitation practice. New chapters, a new reader-friendly design, new artwork, and more enhance the text and bring readers up to date with both basic pharmacologic principles as well as the mechanism of action and side effects of drugs commonly seen in rehabilitation practice. A dynamic, interactive EVOLVE website provides additional resources for both you and your students.
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- A new chapter on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pharmacology covers popular herbal and alternative products used to promote health, as well as herbal remedies used during menopause and in the treatment of cancer, helping students recognize the impact of herbals on patients' symptoms and response to therapy.
- A new chapter on Drugs Affecting the Integumentary System discusses skin disorders and their pharmacological treatment, prophylactic and debriding agents, antiseptics, and more.
- A new chapter on Nutrition and Pharmacology provides current information on vitamins and minerals, enteral and parenteral nutrition, and food and drug interactions -- important topics that affect rehabilitation outcomes.
- Updated drug information and new drugs are added throughout the text, keeping readers up to date with current pharmacological information as it pertains to rehabilitation.
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- A new chapter on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pharmacology covers popular herbal and alternative products used to promote health, as well as herbal remedies used during menopause and in the treatment of cancer, helping you recognize the impact of herbals on your patients' symptoms and response to therapy.
- A new chapter on Drugs Affecting the Integumentary System discusses skin disorders and their pharmacological treatment, prophylactic and debriding agents, antiseptics, and more.
- A new chapter on Nutrition and Pharmacology provides current information on vitamins and minerals, enteral and parenteral nutrition, and food and drug interactions -- important topics that affect rehabilitation outcomes.
- Updated drug information and new drugs are added throughout the text, keeping you up to date with current pharmacological information as it pertains to rehabilitation.
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Section One: Principles of Pharmacology
1. Introduction
2. Pharmacodynamics: Mechanisms of Action
3. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Dosing
4. Adverse Drug Reactions
Section Two: Autonomic and Cardiovascular Pharmacology
5. Drugs Acting on the Autonomic Nervous System
6. Antihypertensive Agents
7. Drug Therapy of Coronary Atherosclerosis and Its Repercussions
8. Drug Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Arrhythmias
Section Three: Treatment for Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Disorders
9. Drug Therapy for Pulmonary Disorders
10. Drugs for Gastrointestinal Disorders
Section Four: Pain Control
11. Anesthetic Agents
12. Drugs for the Treatment of Pain and Inflammation
13. Drug treatment for Arthritis Related Conditions
Section Five: Endocrine Pharmacology
14. Selective Topics in Endocrine Pharmacology
15. Drug Treatment for Osteoporosis and Diabetes
Section Six: Psychopharmacology
16. Drug Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
17. Drug Treatment for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Illness
Section Seven: Drugs Affecting the Nervous System
18. Drugs for Epilepsy and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
19. Antispasticity Medications and Skeletal Muscle Relaxants
20. Pharmacologic Management of Degenerative Neurologic Disorders
Section Eight: Drugs Affecting the Integumentary System
21. Integumentary System - NEW
Section Nine: Infectious Disease
22. Antimicrobial Agents
23. Antiviral Agents and Selected Drugs for Fungal Infections
Section Ten: Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Agents Acting on the Immune System
24. Chemotherapy and Immune Modulation
Section Eleven: The Relationship between Drug Therapy and Exercise
25. The Interaction between Selective Cardiopulmonary and Diabetic Medications and Exercise
Section Twelve: Special Topics
26. Nutrition and Pharmacology - NEW
27. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pharmacology - NEW
