Description:Now fully revised and updated in its sixth edition, Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics combines the skills of an interdisciplinary team of clinicians, pharmacists and nurses to present an integrated understanding of disease processes, evidence-based clinical pharmacology and optimal drug regimes. Register your StudentConsult PIN for access to the e-book.Key Features • Key points boxes at the beginning of each chapter• Case-study boxes throughout the chapters• Each chapter co-written by a pharmacist and a clinician• In-depth treatment of therapeutics to support pharmaceutical prescribing• Logical order and format: key points, epidemiology, aetiology, disease, clinical manifestations, investigations and treatment, drugs used in treatment.• Dosage reference sources given where appropriate, along with useful websites and further reading for each chapter.New to this Edition • New co-editor, Karen Hodson• Over 10 new authors• Now in 4-colour• On StudentConsult for the first time• New chapter on Dementia• Many new and revised illustrations • Chapters revised to include advances in therapeutics and changes to dose regimens and licensed indications• Updated case studiesTable of ContentsSection 1: General 1 Clinical pharmacy process2 Prescribing3 Practical pharmacokinetics4 Drug interactions5 Adverse drug reactions6 Laboratory data7 Parenteral nutrition8 PharmacoeconomicsSection 2: Life stages 9 Neonates10 Paediatrics11 GeriatricsSection 3: TherapeuticsGastrointestinal disorders 12 Peptic ulcer disease13 Inflammatory bowel disease14 Constipation and diarrhoea15 Adverse effects of drugs on the liver16 Liver disease.17 Acute kidney injury18 Chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease19 Hypertension20 Coronary heart disease21 Chronic heart failure22 Arrhythmias23 Thrombosis24 Dyslipidaemia25 Asthma26 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease27 Insomnia28 Anxiety disorders29 Affective disorders30 Schizophrenia31 Epilepsy32 Parkinson's disease33 Dementia34 Pain35 Nausea and vomiting36 Respiratory infections37 Urinary tract infections38 Gastrointestinal infections39 Infective meningitis40 Surgical site infection and antimicrobial prophylaxis41 Tuberculosis42 HIV infection.43 Fungal infections44 Thyroid and parathyroid disorders45 Diabetes mellitus46 Menstrual cycle disorders47 Menopause48 Drugs in pregnancy and lactation49 Prostate disease.50 Anaemia.51 Leukaemia52 Lymphomas53 Solid tumours.54 Rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis55 Gout and hyperuricaemia56 Glaucoma57 Drug-induced skin disorders58 Eczema and psoriasis59 Wounds.