Pocket Prescriber 2011

Summary:
Pocket Prescriber 2011 is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide. It contains all the 'must have' information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers and medical students need at their fingertips.

Key Features
- A-Z list of the 500 most commonly prescribed drugs with each entry containing the key prescribing information
- Focuses on safety issues, warnings, drug errors and adverse effects
- Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and guidelines
- Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions
- Concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies
- Includes the new 2010 European Resuscitation Council algorithms
- Clinically useful reminders of basic pharmacology (e.g. receptor profiles)

• Quick reference alphabetical listing of need to know drugs
• Focus on safety issues, warnings and common errors
• Concise summaries of the management of medical emergencies
• Up to the minute national and where possible international protocols and guidelines concerning drug choice including ERC algorithms
• Advice and reference information on complex drugs to prescribe such as insulin, anticoagulants and diamorphine pumps
• Includes basic pharmacology

Table of Contents:
Common/useful drugs
Drug selection
Antibiotics
Hypertension management
Asthma
Analgesia
Palliative care and subcutaneous pumps
Antiemetics
Alcohol withdrawal
Antidepressants
How to prescribe
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Thrombolysis
Controlled drugs
Miscellaneous
Intravenous fluids
Steroids
Sedation/sleeping tablets
Benzodiazepines
Side effect profiles
Cytochrome P450
Medical Emergencies
Acute coronary syndromes (ACS)
Acute LVF
Accelerated hypertension
Atrial fibrillation
Acute asthma
COPD exacerbation
Pulmonary embolism
Acute upper GI haemorrhage
Sepsis (severe or septic shock)
Epilepsy
DKA
Honk
Glucose
Thyrotoxic crisis
Myxoedema coma
Addisonian crisis
Electrolyte disturbances
Overdoses
Reference information
Coma
Cognitive impairment
Useful formulae
Common laboratory reference values

About the Author(s):
Timothy RJ Nicholson MBBS BSc MSc MRCP MRCPsych
Academic Clinical Lecturer, Section of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK

Donald RJ Singer BMedBiol MD FRCP
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick and University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK

Readership:
Junior doctors

Pocket Prescriber 2011 is now available in mobile format and can be purchased via download from our partner Skyscape.

Our mobile editions are suitable for use with iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad™ and Android™ OS 1.5 or higher. Please visit www.skyscape.com/support for information regarding other supported platforms.

It is available for one-off purchase or subscription.

The mobile edition provides the junior doctor and nurse and pharmacist prescribers with speedy access to essential clinical pharmacology information on the 500 most commonly prescribed drugs. The mobile edition is based on the 2011 print edition with additional features and enhanced functionality. It's clearly laid out with handy indexes of medical emergencies, generic and trade drug names, figures, and calculators in addition to the main index and table of contents; hyperlinked cross-references; and a list of abbreviations and symbols hyperlinked from the text. It features interactive calculators and, depending on your device, you can add bookmarks and annotate the text with your notes. Additionally the content is cross-indexed with all of Skyscape's 500+ clinical, drug & diagnostic references, providing you with the option to cross-refer to other resources and purchase a