Pharmacology: Principles and Clinical Applications

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Pharmacology: Principles and Clinical Applications

Each chapter of this book follows a consistent structure designed to support both first-time learning and pre-examination revision. Learning Objectives at the start of each chapter outline what the student should be able to do after studying the material that follows. The main body of each chapter is organized into numbered sections by drug class or physiological system, with mechanism of action, clinical uses, and adverse effects addressed systematically for each drug group. Illustrative figures are placed at the point in the text where they are most relevant, and are listed together, with captions, in the List of Figures.

Towards the end of each chapter, a Quick Comparison box contrasts two closely related drug classes side by side, a Chapter Summary distils the chapter into a short list of key points suitable for rapid revision, and a set of Clinical Correlations illustrates how the pharmacological principles discussed apply to realistic clinical scenarios. Each chapter closes with Review Questions — multiple-choice questions with an answer key, short-answer questions, and long-answer questions — for self-assessment. Four appendices at the end of the book provide a glossary of terms, a list of abbreviations, a quick-reference table of clinically important drug interactions, and a sample model question paper in a typical university examination pattern.