Pharmacotherapy Principles & Practice uses a solid evidence-based approach to teach you how to design, implement, monitor, and evaluate medication therapy. Updated with additional content and reflecting the latest findings, this sixth edition provides everything you need to gain an in-depth understanding of the underlying principles of the pharmacotherapy of disease\u2015and their practical application. All chapters were written or reviewed by pharmacists, nurse practitioners, physician assists, and physicians recognized by authorities in their fields.<\/p>\n
The book opens with an insightful introductory chapter and is followed by five chapters focused on specific populations: pediatrics, geriatrics, palliative care, critical care, and global health and travel medicine. The subsequent 97 disease-based chapters cover epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and diagnosis, and nonpharmacologic therapy, followed by clear recommendations for medication selection, desired outcomes, dosing, and patient monitoring.<\/p>\n
Features of the Sixth Edition:<\/p>\n
Updated patient encounter cases sharpen critical-thinking skills and lend clinical relevant to scientific principles
\nNew chapters cover: oCritical care pharmacotherapy
\noGlobal health and travel medicine
\noSystematic lupus erythematous
\noNose, mouth, and throat disorders
\nNew content on circulatory shock syndromes, trauma-related anxiety disorder, otic disorders, and antimicrobial stewardship
\nStructured learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter
\nKey concepts, identified by icons, highlight the disease, patient assessment, and treatment
\nPatient care process section modeling the Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCCP) Pharmacists’ Patient Care Process
\nUp-to-date literature citations for each chapter
\nTable, figures, algorithms, and defined medical abbreviations
\nSelf-assessment questions and answers in the Online Learning Center
\nValuable table of common laboratory tests and reference ranges<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pharmacotherapy Principles and & Practice, [Sixth Ed\/6e] 6th Edition by Marie Chisholm-Burns (Author), Terry Schwinghammer (Author), Patrick Malone (Author), Jill Kolesar (Author), Kelly C Lee (Author), P. Brandon Bookstaver (Author)<\/p>\n