Main description:

This book is intended to be concise yet highly informative and user friendly. It provides quick information of drug doses, adverse effects, contraindications of use and special precautions which has to be undertaken during therapy. The contents will be especially helpful not only for the students, but also for the busy practitioners.

The clinical pearls and the comparative study of drugs discussed at the end of the chapters are for instant overview. This book precisely covers almost all important chapters of Pharmacology and would provide important at hand information for postgraduate aspirants too for their entrance examinations.

Contents:

1. Introduction to General Pharmacology

2. General Anesthetics

3. Parenteral Anesthetics

4. Hypnotics and Sedatives

5. Skeletal Muscle Relaxants

6. Drugs Used in Reversal of Neuromuscular Block

7. Anticholinergic Drugs Used in Anesthesia

8. Nonsteroidal Anti-inflammatory and Antipyretic Analgesics

9. Centrally Acting Analgesics-OPIOIDS

10. Local Anesthetics

11. Drug Used in Nausea and Vomiting

12. Drugs for Peptic Ulcer Disease

13. Drugs for Respiratory Disease

14. Drugs for Cough

15. Drugs Acting on Cardiovascular System

16. Ischemic Heart Disease 158

17. Diuretics

18. Drugs used in Parkinsonism

19. Antidepressants

20. Drugs Acting on the Endocrine System

21. Oxygen Therapy and Humidification

22. Drug Therapy in Special Cases

23. Management of Emergency Situations

24. Anticoagulants, Fibrinolytics and Antiplatelet Agents

Index