Clinical Pharmacokinetics Handbook

Clinical pharmacokinetics is the discipline that describes the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and elimination of drugsin patients requiring drug therapy. Clinicians often find that the application of pharmacokinetic principles for the calculationof a drug regimen is bewildering and difficult. In this book it is shown that clinically useful calculations can be simply done atthe bedside. The result will be improvement in drug therapy. This book delivers clear and clinically relevant coverage of drugdosing and drug monitoring. It offers the latest standardized techniques and approaches to patient-specific dosing, plusinformation on the most recent pharmacokinetically monitored drugs. This book covers the basic concepts, antibiotics,cardiovascular agents, anticonvulsants, immunosuppressants and other drugs. It is written by expert with extensiveexperience in pharmacokinetics and includes clinically pertinent pearls for individual drugs. This is an important referencethat teaches clinically relevant pharmacokinetic dosing and therapeutic drug monitoring tools. The book is intended as aninstructive tool in pharmacokinetics for healthcare practitioners who wish to learn these concepts and apply them in theirclinical practice. The book satisfies its objectives, outlining important pharmacokinetic concepts in an organized and easy tounderstand fashion.