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Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised Donald Birkett

Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised By Donald Birkett

Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised by Donald Birkett


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Presenting information on the subject of pharmacokinetics, this book is useful for medical practitioners, health professionals and students of pharmacology, medicine and nursing. Adopting a physiological approach, it allows clinical issues in drug therapy to be addressed, making it applicable to practice situations.

Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised Summary

Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised by Donald Birkett

Pharmacokinetics Made Easy 1R presents the complex subject of pharmacokinetics in a simple, easy-to-understand manner, lending itself to a wide audience, including medical practitioners, health professionals and students of pharmacology, medicine and nursing. The physiological approach adopted in the book allows clinical issues in drug therapy to be addressed, making it directly applicable to practice situations. The chapters in this book were initially published as a series of articles in Australian Prescriber to assist practitioners in drug dosing and therapy. In this revised edition, the book has been updated according to recent developments and a new chapter called 'How to Determine the Pharmacokinetic Parameters of a Drug' added. Each chapter also has a new feature - a list of key points summarising the content to improve accessibility and understanding.

About Donald Birkett

Don Birkett obtained his medical degree from Sydney University in 1967 and a D Phil in Biochemistry from Oxford University in 1970. He has been Professor and Head of CLinical Pharmacology at Flinders University of South Australia and Flinders Medical Centre since 1977. His major research interest has been in the field of drug metabolism using techniques ranging from in vitro molecular biological methods to in vivo pharmacokinetic studies. He was Chair of the International Union of Pharmacology (IUPHAR) Section on Drug Metabolism from 1994 to 1998. He has played a significant role in drug regulation, being a past member of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee, and the current Chair of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee which considers the listing of drugs for government susidy in Australia. He also currently chairs the Australian Drug Utilization Subcommittee and the WHO Working Group on Drug Statistics Methodology. He has published more than 220 scientific papers and books. he has been teaching clinical pharmacology, pharmacology and pharmacokinetics for more than 25 years to medical and science students, and to drug regulators and members of the pharmaceutical industry.

Table of Contents

Preface


About the authors

Definitions and Units of Symbols

Equations

Introduction


1.Clearance

2.Volume of Distribution

3.Half-life

4.How Drugs are Cleared by the Liver

5.Bioavailability and First-Pass Clearance

6.Predicting Drug Interactions and the Effects of Disease States for Metabolised Drugs

7.Clearance of Drugs by the Kidneys

8.Drug Protein Binding

9.Non-Linear Pharmacokinetics

10.How to Determine the Pharmacokinetic Parameters of a Drug

11.Pharmacodynamics-the Concentration-Effect Relationship

12.Designing Dose Regimens

13.Therapeutics Drug Monitoring


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Additional information

GOR002070480
9780074710722
0074710729
Pharmacokinetics Made Easy, Revised by Donald Birkett
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20021016
150
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