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Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing

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Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing provides a comprehensive guide for veterinary professionals on the principles of pharmacology and therapeutics. It explores drug interactions, mechanisms of action, and considerations for proper dispensing in animals. This resource is designed to enhance understanding and application of medications in veterinary practice, ensuring effective and safe treatment for various animal species.
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You might enjoy this book if you are interested in veterinary science, particularly in understanding how medications are prescribed and dispensed in veterinary practices. This comprehensive guide provides insights into pharmacology and therapeutic protocols, making it a valuable resource for those studying or working in animal healthcare.

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Delivers the foundational and practical knowledge required for pharmacists to become an integral part of the veterinary health care team, improving therapeutic outcomes while preventing serious adverse drug reactions in veterinary patients.

Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing enables pharmacists and pharmacy students to expand the breadth of their pharmacological knowledge to include common veterinary species. The book offers a practical yet complete resource for dispensing drugs for canine and feline patients, with additional chapters on horses, birds, reptiles, small mammals, and food animals. Edited by a globally recognised expert in veterinary pharmacology, and including chapters written by veterinarians with expertise in pharmacotherapy and pharmacists with expertise in veterinary medicine, this book is designed to help pharmacists enhance the quality of veterinary patient care.

This book is the first to combine the expertise of both veterinarians and pharmacists to enable pharmacists to apply their knowledge and skills to assure optimal therapeutic outcomes for patients of all species. Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing:

  • Puts the information needed to safely dispense prescription and OTC drugs for veterinary patients at the pharmacists’ fingertips
  • Focuses on crucial details of canine and feline pharmacotherapeutics
  • Helps pharmacists avoid adverse drug reactions including pharmacogenomic and breed-related drug sensitivities
  • Offers an authoritative resource written by leading veterinary pharmacy experts designed to integrate pharmacists into the veterinary healthcare team
  • Includes crucial regulatory information unique to veterinary drug dispensing and compounding

Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing is an essential reference for all pharmacists and pharmacy students that might find themselves dispensing drugs to veterinary patients, as well as for veterinarians and others involved with dispensing veterinary drugs.

β€œPharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing is a book long overdue for the pharmacy profession.... Whether you have practised veterinary pharmacy your whole career or have never practised veterinary pharmacy, this book has much to offer. Veterinarians are encouraged to suggest this book to pharmacists with whom they work and interact.” - JAVMA Vol 255 No. 6

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781119404545

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 April 2019

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Contributors:

  • Edited by Katrina L. Mealey

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 178.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 1202g

Pages: 640

About the Author

The Editor

Katrina L. Mealey, BS (Pharm), DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DACVCP, and NAI Fellow, is a Professor and Endowed Chair at Washington State University and is the Founding Director of the Program in Individualized Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman, WA, USA.

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