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Pocket Prescriber 2015

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Pocket Prescriber 2015 is a concise and up-to-date prescribing guide essential for junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students. It offers an A–Z list of the 500 most commonly prescribed drugs, highlighting key prescribing details with a strong focus on safety, warnings, and adverse effects.

The guide also provides practical advice on drug selection, protocols, and guidelines, alongside management summaries for common medical emergencies and the European Resuscitation Council algorithms. Additionally, it includes useful reminders of basic pharmacology such as receptor profiles, making it an indispensable reference at the point of care.
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Pocket Prescriber 2015 is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide. It contains all the ‘must-have’ information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students need at their fingertips.

Key features:

  • An A–Z list of the 500 most commonly prescribed drugs, with each entry containing the key prescribing information.
  • Focuses on safety issues, warnings, drug errors, and adverse effects.
  • Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and guidelines.
  • Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions.
  • Concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies.
  • Includes the European Resuscitation Council algorithms.
  • Clinically useful reminders of basic pharmacology, such as receptor profiles.

Series: Pocket Prescriber Series

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781498747844

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 19 August 2015

Country: United States

Imprint: CRC Press Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 27 Tables, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Donald RJ Singer
  • Edited by Timothy RJ Nicholson

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 104.0mm

Height: 144.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 312

About the Author

Edited by Timothy R.J. Nicholson , MBBS, BSc, MSc, PhD, MRCP, MRCPsych, Academic Clinical Lecturer, Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK Donald R.J. Singer , BmedBiol, MD, FRCP, FBPharmacolS, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine, London, UK

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