Pages: 734,
Specialty: Pharmacy,
Publisher: NA,
Publication Year: 2019,
Cover: Paperback

Introduction

Step up Pharmacy is a clinical book specialized in pharmacy practice, it is a smart book which provides an easy way to understanding clinical pharmacy practice as it contains illustrative pictures, simple icons, explanatory tables and real pictures of the clinical cases and drugs.

This book is a pharmacy guide which provides the steps to help Pharmacists and health care providers create a strong clinical base for applied science in medical practice.

Step up is divided into two main sections, the first is about the most common diseases for different systems of the body, and this part includes:

• Introduction to the disease.

• Types and causes.

• Signs and symptoms.

• Diagnoses.

• Non pharmacological treatment.

• Pharmacological treatment.

• Common doses of the drugs.

• Quick notes about the disease.

The second section is specialized in the drugs, this part provides all the important information about the drugs, and this includes:

• Active ingredients.

• Trade names.

• Dosage form.

• Available doses.

• Mechanism of action.

• Clinical uses.

• Contraindications.

• Side effects.

• Patient education and counseling.

• Use in liver disease.

• Use in the renal disease.

• Use in pregnancy.

• Use in lactation.

• Food drug interaction.

• The manufacturer company.

• The drug store.

• Real pictures of the drugs.

Step UP to Pharmacy is the first book from the pharmacy education series which contains information and clinical data according to the current guidelines, trusted sources and real pharmacy practice, it is a book which will be updated every year to provide you with information on the latest drugs in the pharmacy market and the latest guidelines to professional health practice.

How to use this book

• In the beginning you must read the introduction to understand the overall idea which the book can provide.

• Look at the key table of this book to understand the meaning of each key label.

• At the beginning of each system, you can find the section which contains the most common diseases, this provides an easy way to understand it and therefore make professional diagnoses and treatments.

• You can find the accurate dosage for children and adults in the explanatory tables.

• Following this, you will be able to determine the appropriate drug of use with reference to the drugs section at the end of the chapter.

• You can find the drug using two easy ways: the first according to the active ingredient which you can find from the" Book content" at the beginning of this book, the second according to the trade name of the drug, using this method you should refer to the "Alphabetical drug index" at the end of this book which provides you with the page number for the selected drug.

• The section of the drugs conveys the information in an easy way. You must read the active ingredient then the icons and the side effects, following this look at: the trade names of this drug, the available dosage, the manufacturer company and the drug store.

• In general the pictures of the drugs are life images with the exceptions of few that are shown using step up images.

Dr. lina ayesh