Summary:
Building on the success and popularity of previous editions, Pocket Prescriber 2009–10 has been fully updated to incorporate new drugs, to remove drugs no longer on the market and to reflect recent changes in dosages and prescribing practice. It fills a niche by providing the most essential clinical pharmacology information that busy clinicians need at their fingertips – by focusing on the 500 key drugs that are most commonly prescribed, in an A to Z listing, the book avoids overwhelming the reader with information and remains user-friendly. Information provided includes dosages, indications, contraindications, side-effects and interactions. An important section of the book deals with commonly-encountered prescribing problems, selection issues where there are many similar drugs to choose from (such as antibiotics and antihypertensives), and guidance on coping with a wide variety of emergency situations (such as anaphylaxis and overdoses). Principally aimed at junior doctors, the book is also an invaluable and accessible revision aid for medical students and a practical handbook for nurse and pharmacist prescribers.

• Truly pocket-sized
• Focuses on only the most important, commonly prescribed drugs
• Concise summaries of the management of medical emergencies
• Includes basic pharmacology as a learning aid for students and doctors
• Now co-authored by a leading clinical pharmacologist

Table of Contents:
How to use this book
How to prescribe safely
List of abbreviations
Common/useful drugs
Antibiotics
Hypertension
Asthma
Analgesia
Palliative care
Antiemetics
Alcohol withdrawal
Depression
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Thrombolysis
Controlled drugs
Intravenous fluids
Steroids
Sedation/sleeping tablets
Benzodiazepines
Side-effect profiles
Cytochrome P450
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS)
Acute LVF
Accelerated hypertension
Atrial fibrillation
Acute asthma
COPD exacerbation
Pulmonary embolism
Acute upper GI haemorrhage
Sepsis
Stroke
Epilepsy
DKA
HONK
HONK
?Glucose
Thyrotoxic crisis
Myxoedema coma
Addisonian crisis
Electrolyte disturbances
Overdoses
Coma: GCS
Cognitive impairment MTS / MMSE
Useful equations
Common laboratory reference values

About the Author(s):
Timothy RJ Nicholson, Honorary SpR at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust; and Research Fellow, Department of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
Ashan Gunarathne – SpR in Cardiovascular Clinical Pharmacology and Medicine, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire and
Birmingham NHS Trusts and Honorary Lecturer in Medicine, University of Birmingham and Warwick, UK
Donald RJ Singer – Professor of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK

Readership:
Core: Junior doctors, Supplementary: Medical studnets, nurse prescribers