This popular resource describes the key principles in pharmacokinetics and their applications in drug therapy. Now expanded and updated, Clinical Pharmacokinetics features a listing of commonly used pharmacokinetic equations; dosing for pediatric and geriatric patients, overweight and obese patients, and considerations for neonates; creatinine clearance estimation and dosing concepts in renal dysfunction; tables on international and traditional units for drug and laboratory tests; and specific chapters on anti-infectives, neurologic agents, cardiovascular drugs, and anticoagulants.

Other chapter topics include the rational use of drug concentration measurements, aminoglycosides, antidepressants, newer antiepileptic drugs, antirejection agents, carbamazepine, digoxin, ethosuximide, unfractionated and low-molecular-weight heparins, lidocaine, lithium, phenobarbital, phenytoin and fosphenytoin, procainamide, quinidine, theophylline, valproic acid, vancomycin, and warfarin.

John E. Murphy, Pharm.D., FCCP, FASHP

ISBN-13: 978-1-58528-167-1; 2008; 463 pages; softcover