Physician's Drug Handbook

The most-favorite handbook for prescribers has been fully updated to include 60 new drugs, a full-color photoguide to more than 320 pills, dosage adjustment information now with an eye-catching symbol, pharmacologic class section now with a shaded border for quick access, and several helpful new appendices. For more than 1,000 generic and 2,000 trade names, readers learn the drug names; pharmacologic and therapeutic classification; controlled substance schedule (where appropriate); pregnancy risk category; how supplied; indications, route, and dosage; pharmacokinetics; contraindications and precautions; interactions; effects on diagnostic tests; adverse reactions; overdose and treatment; special considerations; and information for the patient. Book contents include clinical reviewers and consultants; foreword; how to use this book; generic entries in alphabetical order; photoguide to tablets and capsules; pharmacologic classes; appendices, including selected analgesic combination products, topical drugs, immunization schedules, antidotes to poisonings or overdose, therapeutic monitoring guidelines, therapeutic management guidelines, cancer chemotherapy (acronyms and protocols), managing extravasation, and pharmaceutical companies listing (drug information contact numbers and Web sites); and index. Alphabetically organized for quick-reference.