The Hands–on Guide to Practical Prescribing

Oliver Jones and Nandan Gautam are the authors of The Hands-on Guide to Practical Prescribing, published by Wiley.

1 General introduction, 0. 2 Practical aspects of how to prescribe, 0. 3 How to use the British National Formulary (BNF) and Monthly 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 and prevention), 00. 16 Breast problems, 00. 17 Urological problems: benign prostatic hypertrophy, incontinence and. infections, 00. 18 Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and the surgical patient, 00. 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 or hormone 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 patient, 00. 38 Drug dependency syndromes, 00. 39 Palliative care and the management of chronic pain, 00. 40 Diabetes, 00