The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a concise, easy-to-use guide to the practical aspects of pharmacology for junior doctors who are making the transition from studying pharmacology to prescribing drugs for the first time. This new addition to 'The hands-on guide' series brings together the core pharmacological knowledge required by house officers, structured in a way to address the very hands-on, practical aspects of prescribing. This book is not designed to replace the factual drug information in the BNF, but to complement and build upon it, so that The hands-on guide to practical prescribing provides junior doctors with a solid guide to prescribing in the clinical setting. Beginning with the general principles of prescribing and basics of writing a prescription form, the book guides you through topics such as using the BNF, drug interactions and monitoring toxicity, before moving on to cover both surgical and medical topics such as preoperative and postoperative patients, prophylaxis, organ failure and diabetes. The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a problem-based book that covers the common problems and questions a house officer might encounter, and will be an invaluable guide to life on the wards. The authors are specialist registrars in medicine and surgery, have undertaken SHO and registrar posts in the major specialities and also write and teach regularly on clinical pharmacology.

The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a conciseeasy-to-use guide to the practical aspects of pharmacology forjunior doctors who are making the transition from studyingpharmacology to prescribing drugs for the first time.This new addition to 'The hands-on guide' series brings togetherthe core pharmacological knowledge required by house officersstructured in a way to address the very hands-on, practical aspectsof prescribing. This book is not designed to replace the factualdrug information in the BNF, but to complement and build upon itso that The hands-on guide to practical prescribing provides juniordoctors with a solid guide to prescribing in the clinicalsetting.Beginning with the general principles of prescribing and basicsof writing a prescription form, the book guides you through topicssuch as using the BNF, drug interactions and monitoring toxicitybefore moving on to cover both surgical and medical topics such aspreoperative and postoperative patients, prophylaxis, organ failureand diabetes.The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a problem-basedbook that covers the common problems and questions a house officermight encounter, and will be an invaluable guide to life on thewards. The authors are specialist registrars in medicine andsurgery, have undertaken SHO and registrar posts in the majorspecialities and also write and teach regularly on clinicalpharmacology.

1 General introduction, 0.2 Practical aspects of how to prescribe, 0.3 How to use the British National Formulary (BNF) andMonthly Index of.Medical Specialties (MIMS), 0.4 Drug interactions, 0.5 Monitoring of drugs, overdose and toxicity, 0.6 Adverse drug reactions and allergies, 0.7 Prescribing in children, 00.8 Prescribing in the elderly, 00.9 Conception, pregnancy and breast-feeding, 00.10 Surgical patients: the preoperative stage, 00.11 Intravenous fluids, 00.12 Nutrition, 00.13 Analgesia: management of acute pain, 00.14 The acute surgical abdomen, 00.15 Vascular surgical issues: ischaemia (acute, chronic andprevention), 00.16 Breast problems, 00.17 Urological problems: benign prostatic hypertrophyincontinence and.infections, 00.18 Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and the surgical patient00.19 Antibiotic prophylaxis, 00.20 Bowel preparation, 00.21 Wounds and abscesses, including dressings, 00.22 Anticoagulation, 00.23 Transfusion of blood products, 00.24 The patient on steroids, the oral contraceptive pill orhormone replacement.therapy, 00.25 Prescribing in organ failure, 00.26 Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system, 00.27 Hypertension, 00.28 Cardiac arrythmias, 00.29 Airways disease, 00.30 Oxygen therapy, 00.31 Musculoskeletal drugs, 00.32 Movement disorders and epilepsy, 00.33 Altered conscious level and stroke, 00.34 Constipation, diarrhoea and bowel disease, 00.35 Nausea and vomiting, 00.36 Gastro-oesophageal reflux and peptic ulcer disease, 00.37 Insomnia, nocturnal confusion and the aggressive patient00.38 Drug dependency syndromes, 00.39 Palliative care and the management of chronic pain, 00.40 Diabetes, 00