Drugs for the Heart

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Elsevier Saunders, 2005 - Medical - 437 pages
This book now comes with an online resource included.

The new 6th Edition continues to be the definitive pocket-sized guide on the "hows" and "whys" of cardiovascular drugs. It provides in-depth information on all of the drug classes used to treat heart disease, and covers drug use, new drug classes, drug use for single and multiple problem management, and more. A user-friendly organisation speed readers to the information they need, and dynamic new full-colour drawings illustrate key pharmacological and physiological actions.

This website delivers in-depth information on all of the drug classes used to treat heart disease. Here, you can access a fully searchable version of the Drugs for the Heart, 6th Edition text, plus content updates twice a year.

There's no easier way to stay abreast of new drugs, indications, leading trials, and more!

  • Features a final chapter, "Which Drugs for Which Disease" that provides a disease-based approach to drugs, complete with rationales and clinical data.
  • Includes clinical trial data for each drug class and type.
  • Discusses and evaluates new advances in drugs such as super statins as well as combination therapies.
  • Provides an increased emphasis on the practical use of drugs for busy clinicians.
  • Features a bold new full-colour format, with enhanced illustrations that depict pharmacologic and physiologic actions.
  • Delivers information on new drug classes, including practical descriptions and guidance on the use of new drug agents.
  • From inside the book

    Contents

    BBlocking Agents
    1
    Nitrates
    33
    Calcium Channel Blockers
    46
    Copyright

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    Common terms and phrases

    Bibliographic information