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Now fully revised and updated, Dr. Barbara Gladson's Pharmacology for Rehabilitation Professionals, 2nd Edition, remains your best resource for understanding how various drugs affect patients during therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation. Using case studies and engaging activities, it helps you apply essential pharmacology information directly to rehabilitation practice. New chapters, a new reader-friendly design, new artwork, and more enhance the text and bring you up to date with both basic pharmacologic principles as well as the mechanism of action and side effects of drugs commonly seen in rehabilitation practice.
Author | GLADSON |
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Table Of Content | Section One: Principles of Pharmacology 1. Introduction 2. Pharmacodynamics: Mechanisms of Action 3. Pharmacokinetics and Drug Dosing 4. Adverse Drug Reactions Section Two: Autonomic and Cardiovascular Pharmacology 5. Drugs Acting on the Autonomic Nervous System 6. Antihypertensive Agents 7. Drug Therapy of Coronary Atherosclerosis and Its Repercussions 8. Drug Therapy for Congestive Heart Failure and Cardiac Arrhythmias Section Three: Treatment for Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Disorders 9. Drug Therapy for Pulmonary Disorders 10. Drugs for Gastrointestinal Disorders Section Four: Pain Control 11. Anesthetic Agents 12. Drugs for the Treatment of Pain and Inflammation 13. Drug treatment for Arthritis Related Conditions Section Five: Endocrine Pharmacology 14. Selective Topics in Endocrine Pharmacology 15. Drug Treatment for Osteoporosis and Diabetes Section Six: Psychopharmacology 16. Drug Treatment for Depression and Anxiety 17. Drug Treatment for Schizophrenia and Bipolar Illness Section Seven: Drugs Affecting the Nervous System 18. Drugs for Epilepsy and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder 19. Antispasticity Medications and Skeletal Muscle Relaxants 20. Pharmacologic Management of Degenerative Neurologic Disorders Section Eight: Drugs Affecting the Integumentary System 21. Integumentary System - NEW Section Nine: Infectious Disease 22. Antimicrobial Agents 23. Antiviral Agents and Selected Drugs for Fungal Infections Section Ten: Chemotherapeutic Drugs and Agents Acting on the Immune System 24. Chemotherapy and Immune Modulation Section Eleven: The Relationship between Drug Therapy and Exercise 25. The Interaction between Selective Cardiopulmonary and Diabetic Medications and Exercise Section Twelve: Special Topics 26. Nutrition and Pharmacology - NEW 27. Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Pharmacology - NEW |
Format | 276 x 216 (8 1/2 x 10 7/8) |
Page Count | 532 |
Publish Date | 15 Sep 2010 |