Nandan Gautam & Oliver Jones 
The Hands-on Guide to Practical Prescribing 

The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a concise,
easy-to-use guide to the practical aspects of pharmacology for
junior doctors who are making the transition from studying
pharmacology to prescribing drugs for the first time.

This new addition to ‘The hands-on guide’ series brings together
the core pharmacological knowledge required by house officers,
structured in a way to address the very hands-on, practical aspects
of prescribing. This book is not designed to replace the factual
drug information in the BNF, but to complement and build upon it,
so that The hands-on guide to practical prescribing provides junior
doctors with a solid guide to prescribing in the clinical
setting.

Beginning with the general principles of prescribing and basics
of writing a prescription form, the book guides you through topics
such as using the BNF, drug interactions and monitoring toxicity,
before moving on to cover both surgical and medical topics such as
preoperative and postoperative patients, prophylaxis, organ failure
and diabetes.

The hands-on guide to practical prescribing is a problem-based
book that covers the common problems and questions a house officer
might encounter, and will be an invaluable guide to life on the
wards. The authors are specialist registrars in medicine and
surgery, have undertaken SHO and registrar posts in the major
specialities and also write and teach regularly on clinical
pharmacology.

قائمة المحتويات

1 General introduction, 0.

2 Practical aspects of how to prescribe, 0.

3 How to use the British National Formulary (BNF) and
Monthly Index of.

Medical Specialties (MIMS), 0.

4 Drug interactions, 0.

5 Monitoring of drugs, overdose and toxicity, 0.

6 Adverse drug reactions and allergies, 0.

7 Prescribing in children, 00.

8 Prescribing in the elderly, 00.

9 Conception, pregnancy and breast-feeding, 00.

10 Surgical patients: the preoperative stage, 00.

11 Intravenous fluids, 00.

12 Nutrition, 00.

13 Analgesia: management of acute pain, 00.

14 The acute surgical abdomen, 00.

15 Vascular surgical issues: ischaemia (acute, chronic and
prevention), 00.

16 Breast problems, 00.

17 Urological problems: benign prostatic hypertrophy,
incontinence and.

infections, 00.

18 Deep vein thrombosis prophylaxis and the surgical patient,
00.

19 Antibiotic prophylaxis, 00.

20 Bowel preparation, 00.

21 Wounds and abscesses, including dressings, 00.

22 Anticoagulation, 00.

23 Transfusion of blood products, 00.

24 The patient on steroids, the oral contraceptive pill or
hormone replacement.

therapy, 00.

25 Prescribing in organ failure, 00.

26 Drugs acting on the cardiovascular system, 00.

27 Hypertension, 00.

28 Cardiac arrythmias, 00.

29 Airways disease, 00.

30 Oxygen therapy, 00.

31 Musculoskeletal drugs, 00.

32 Movement disorders and epilepsy, 00.

33 Altered conscious level and stroke, 00.

34 Constipation, diarrhoea and bowel disease, 00.

35 Nausea and vomiting, 00.

36 Gastro-oesophageal reflux and peptic ulcer disease, 00.

37 Insomnia, nocturnal confusion and the aggressive patient,
00.

38 Drug dependency syndromes, 00.

39 Palliative care and the management of chronic pain, 00.

40 Diabetes, 00

عن المؤلف

Oliver Jones is the author of The Hands-on Guide to Practical Prescribing, published by Wiley.

Nandan Gautam is the author of The Hands-on Guide to Practical Prescribing, published by Wiley.