Clinical Pharmacist Handbook

Author: Hu Jinhong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: This book elaborates on the relevant knowledge, routine work, and methods of clinical pharmacists. The specific content includes the emergence, development, responsibilities, and scope of clinical pharmacists, the main content, methods, and key points of their routine work (including ward rounds and consultations, patient medication education and pharmaceutical information consultation, therapeutic drug monitoring, adverse drug reaction monitoring, and clinical pharmacology research design), evaluation methods and indicators for clinical pharmacist work, as well as the training and education of clinical pharmacists. To meet the needs of clinical pharmacists, the book also lists the treatment protocols for common internal diseases, briefly introduces the key points of drug therapy for common diseases in the respiratory, digestive, cardiovascular, urinary, endocrine systems, and accidental emergencies, for reference by clinical pharmacists. The appendix at the end of the book also includes commonly used data for clinical pharmacists, presented in a tabular form, summarizing the reference data frequently used in daily work. The main data include the dosage table for commonly used drugs, the pregnancy classification table for commonly used drugs, the extreme dosage table for drugs, Latin abbreviations commonly used in prescriptions, the Chinese and English names and definitions of commonly used units and conversions, the body surface area conversion table based on height and weight, the dosage adjustment table for commonly used drugs in cases of impaired liver and kidney function, drugs for skin testing, factors affecting laboratory test results, the selection of antimicrobial drugs for common bacterial infections, reference drugs for empirical treatment of infectious diseases, and common drug interactions. This book is a specialized working manual for clinical pharmacists to refer to in daily practice, and it can also serve as a reference for students of pharmacy and related professionals.