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How Drugs Work Nigel Conway

How Drugs Work By Nigel Conway

How Drugs Work by Nigel Conway


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A concise textbook providing a clear description to understand drug absorption, distribution, action, metabolism and adverse effects, this title provides the information needed in a straightforward way to ensure informed, safe and cost-effective prescribing.

How Drugs Work Summary

How Drugs Work: Basic Pharmacology for Healthcare Professionals, Second Edition by Nigel Conway

Core Themes for Care Assistants is an interactive comprehensive workbook filled with practical activities that can be incorporated into daily work enabling carers to make sense of the main issues emerging from daily practice. Using core themes to reflect common aspects of practice including use of evidence to support clinical practice working in teams communication and using information it provides a clear link to the core units of NVQs SVQs and Open College Network units of learning. This is essential reading for all healthcare assistants and support workers and a key text for training provided in-house or through colleges of further education.

Table of Contents

Getting a drug into the body - absorption; getting a drug to its site of action - distribution; inactivating drugs - phase 1 drug metabolism; phase 2 - drug metabolism and methods of excretion; receptor function and intracellular signalling; the central role of receptors in drug action; drugs which block enzymes - understanding NSAID therapy in inflammation; the principle targets for drug action; calcium iion for the prescriber; the scientific basis of prescribing for the elderly; antibacterial action and bacterial resistance; how to prevent adverse drug actions; how to predict and avoid adverse drug reactions; getting new drugs to market - licensing medicines for human use.

Additional information

GOR003058454
9781857759327
185775932X
How Drugs Work: Basic Pharmacology for Healthcare Professionals, Second Edition by Nigel Conway
Used - Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
20031031
136
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