Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics: Abridged and Updated

Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics: Abridged and Updated provides current, on-the-spot information on how to use every approved cardiovascular drug in adults and children, and the scientific rationale for their clinical use. A clinical distillation of the editors' comprehensive and highly respected Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics 3rd edition textbook, this treatment-centered abridgement features:

• Indications, contraindications, dosage, side effects, pharmacokinetics, and adverse reactions for all approved cardiovascular drugs, including the newest therapeutic agents to become available


• Rationales and usage guidelines for cardiovascular therapeutic strategies


• Abundant tables and charts that summarize important clinical choices


• Handy appendices that review approved uses of cardiovascular agents and their pharmacologic characteristics


• Considerations for managing patients on multi-drug regimens


• Details on drug-drug interaction


• Updated information on alternative medicine approaches to cardiovascular disease.

This book is an abridged and updated version of Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapeutics. Compared to the hardcover 3rd edition, it excludes part 1 (with the exception of the first chapter), includes all of part 2, excludes part 3 (with the exception of chapters 30 and 31), and includes appendices 1 and 2; appendices 3-8 are excluded.