Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for a wide audience including medical practitioners, health professionals, and students, this book includes individual chapters that were initially published as a series of articles in Australian Prescriber to assist practitioners in drug dosing and therapy.
Table of Contents1. Clearance
2. Volume of distribution
3. Half-Life
4. How Drugs are Cleared by the Liver
5. Bioavailability and First-Class Clearance
6. Predicting Drug Interactions and the Effects of Disease States for Metabolised Drugs
7. Clearance of Drugs by the Kidneys
8. Drug Protein Binding
9. Non-Linear Pharmacokinetics
10. How to Determine the Pharmacokinetic Parameters of a Drug
11. Pharmacodynamics - the Concentration-Effect Relationship
12. Designing Dose Regimens
13. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
