anticoagulation.13 Chapter 15Table 15.1 Summary of TNF inhibitors in current clinical use.
14 Chapter 16Table 16.1 Scheme for helping to make risk assessments on the need for prophy...Table 16.2 Current vaccines available in the UK.Table 16.3 Approximate time interval required for maximum protection after pr...Table 16.4 Antimalarial drugs.Table 16.5 Selected parasitic infections of medical importance.
15 Chapter 17Table 17.1 Pain fibre properties.Table 17.2 Types of pain.Table 17.3 Classification of commonly prescribed NSAIDs.Table 17.4 Opioid classification.Table 17.5 Common causes of pain in ICU.Table 17.6 Properties of vasopressors and inotropes.
16 Chapter 18Table 18.1 Ten commonest drugs associated with NPIS enquiries in the UK via T...Table 18.2 Poisons information services.Table 18.3 Examples of symptoms associated with specific toxins.Table 18.4 The AVPU scale.Table 18.5 Agents not adsorbed by charcoal.Table 18.6 List of antidotes and their mechanism of action.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 Schematic examples of a drug (a) with a steep dose– (or concentra...Figure 1.2 Schematic diagram of the dose–response relationship for the desir...Figure 1.3 Steady‐state concentration–time profile for an oral dose (—) and ...Figure 1.4 Plot of concentration versus time after a bolus intravenous injec...Figure 1.5 Plot of concentration versus time illustrating the accumulation t...Figure 1.6 Semi‐logarithmic plot of concentration versus time after a bolus ...
2 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 The concept of quality‐adjusted life year (QALY).Figure 3.2 Incremental cost‐effectiveness ratio.
3 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 Example community prescription conforming to the principles outli...Figure 4.2 Examples of hospital prescription chart prescribing, including so...
4 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Antibiotic drugs licenced in the United States by year of marketi...Figure 9.2 Mechanism of action of HIV drugs.Figure 9.3 Overview of the life cycle and genome of hepatitis C.
5 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 The main actions of insulin.Figure 10.2 Some examples of insulin dose–response curves.Figure 10.3 Management of patients with a new diagnosis of type 1 diabetes....
6 Chapter 11Figure 11.1 Mechanism of action – 5‐ α ‐reductase inhibitors. In most t...Figure 11.2 Action of Botox at the neuromuscular junction. Botox prevents fu...Figure 11.3 Hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal axis. Hormonal control of the mal...Figure 11.4 Mechanism of action – phosphodiesterase inhibitors. Nitric oxide...
7 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Mechanism of action of cytotoxic drugs.Figure 12.2 Simplified diagram of T cell and tumour cell interaction via TCR...
8 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 The coagulation cascade.Figure 13.2 The fibrinolytic system. Exogenous thrombolytic agents are plasm...
9 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Areas requiring malaria prevention.
10 Chapter 17Figure 17.1 WHO pain ladder.
11 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 Paracetamol treatment graph.
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