Editors:
- Unique handbook that combines current treatment protocols and practical pharmacological information
- Provides practical treatment algorithms and easy-to-reference information on treatment agents for the most prominent GI conditions
- Presents all brand and generic names, indications, contraindications, lactation and pregnancy information, doses, routes of administration, side effects, drug interactions, and relative costs of GI therapies in a highly organized format, and printed in a font size that is easily legible and accessible
- Fits into a coat pocket
Part of the book series: Clinical Gastroenterology (CG)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Liver Diseases
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Pancreatic and Malabsorptive Diseases
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Back Matter
About this book
This new edition is a comprehensive, yet concise text that provides current treatment protocols and practical pharmacological information for GI Disease. Each chapter addresses a specific GI disease or condition and provides a list of all agents available for that condition, including all brand and generic names, indications, contraindications, lactation and pregnancy information, doses, routes of administration, duration, and relative cost. The text is also supplemented with tables, algorithms, and key references.
Written by experts in the field, Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics, Second Edition is a valuable and portable resource of use to anyone involved in the treatment of patients with GI disease.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, USA
George Y. Wu
About the editor
University of Connecticut Health Center
Department of Medicine
Division of Gastroenterology-Hepatology
Farmington, CT
USA
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics
Editors: George Y. Wu
Series Title: Clinical Gastroenterology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33317-5
Publisher: Humana Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33317-5Published: 29 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2197-7399
Series E-ISSN: 2197-7704
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XI, 207
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Gastroenterology, Pharmacology/Toxicology