Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 4th Edition - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585281670 ISBN 13: 9781585281671

Publisher: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, 2007

Synopsis

This popular resource is designed as a clinical reference offering the key principles in pharmacokinetics and their applications in drug therapy.Clinical Pharmacokinetics, 4th Edition offers information for medications that require an understanding of individual patients’ probable or actual drug concentrations to achieve medication effectiveness and safety.This expanded edition incorporates:

• A listing of commonly used pharmacokinetic equations.
• Dosing for pediatric and geriatric patients, overweight and obese patients, and considerations for neonates.
• Creatinine clearance estimation.
• Tables on international and traditional units for drug and laboratory tests.
• Specific chapters on anti-infectives, neurologic agents, cardiovascular drugs, and anticoagulants.

Authors represent a broad range of pharmacy practice, including those in clinical practice, academics and medical departments of pharmaceutical industry companies

About this title

About the Author:

John E. Murphy, PharmD, is Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Science and Associate Dean for Professional and Academic Affairs at the College of Pharmacy, and Professor of Clinical, Family and Community Medicine at the College of Medicine, the University of Arizona in Tucson. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Otago School of Pharmacy in Dunedin, New Zealand. Dr. Murphy also served as Head of the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science at the College of Pharmacy from 1991 to 2006. John received BS in pharmacy and PharmD degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he was a recipient of the Distinguished Pharmacy Alumnus Award in 1998. He spent 12 years on the faculty at Mercer University Southern School of Pharmacy in Atlanta, where he also served as Director of Pharmacokinetic Services at a 500 bed medical center.Long active in pharmacy organizations, Dr. Murphy is currently president (2008-2009) of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP). He served as president (1997-1998) and member of the Board of Directors (1994-1999) of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). He has also served as president of the Georgia Society of Hospital Pharmacists. John has been awarded fellow status in three organizations – ACCP, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology, and ASHP.Dr. Murphy has published over 200 papers, ~ 90 abstracts, and four editions of Clinical Pharmacokinetics. John was Co-Director from 2000-2005 of the Arizona Clinical Research Training Program (AzCRTP), an NIH K30 Clinical Research Curriculum Award. His research interests include preventing drug-drug interactions, pharmacy education, and clinical pharmacokinetics. Among various professional and teaching awards received over the years, John was honored with the Award for Sustained Contributions to the Literature of Pharmacy Practice from the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists Foundation in 2003. 

About this edition

• Publisher: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1585281670
• ISBN 13: 9781585281671
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 488
• Editor: John E. Murphy