The Renal Drug Handbook, 3rd Edition

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The Renal Drug Database is used by hundreds of NHS trusts as well as hospitals and other healthcare providers across the world. This book combines the reference material of a nephrology textbook with the everyday relevance of a clinical handbook.

This edition contains additional recommendations for supplemental drug dosing during renal replacement therapies and an expanded section on antimicrobial agents that includes many new antiviral agents used in the treatment of HIV infection. Access monograph information through desktop, laptop or mobile devices, with this new, easy-to-use, frequently-updated online platform. Included in this update are over 130 new drugs and a new section on drug metabolism and excretion in each drug monograph. It continues to offer support and guidance to health care professionals enabling them to prescribe medications to their renal patients appropriately and safely.This handbook provides detailed drug information to assist healthcare professionals to safely dose medications in patients with kidney disease. Now in its updated Fourth Edition, this popular handbook is a practical guide for physicians and surgeons who manage kidney transplant patients and for nurses and other professionals on the transplant team.

The manufacturers information should always be followed unless a renal specialist advises otherwise. Written by members of the UK Renal Pharmacy Group, this book will be of particular interest to anyone new to, or planning a career in, renal pharmacy.

The NICE British National Formulary (BNF) site is only available to users in the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). Wide dissemination of this 4 th edition (2014) will help healthcare professionals who prescribe and more importantly protect their patients from avoidable harm.