Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- About the authors -- Contributors -- A -- ABCD2 scoring system -- ACE inhibitor-induced cough -- Acetylcysteine for nebulisation -- Acute kidney injury -- Addison's disease -- Adrenaline: nebulised -- Adverse drug reactions -- Anaemias -- Angioedema: drug causes and treatment -- Antibiotic choice -- Antimicrobial allergy management -- Antiphospholipid syndrome -- Antipsychotics: equivalent doses -- Apomorphine -- Appetite stimulation -- Arterial blood gases and acid-base balance -- Artificial saliva -- Asthma -- Atrial fibrillation -- B -- Bariatric surgery -- Benzodiazepines and `z' hypnotics -- Bicarbonate -- Body surface area calculation -- Bronchiectasis (non-cystic fibrosis) -- C -- Calcium -- Carbamazepine -- Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting -- Child-Pugh score -- Chloramphenicol (systemic) -- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease -- Ciclosporin: management and monitoring -- Cigarette smoking: calculation of pack-years -- Cigarette smoking-drug interactions -- Clozapine -- Cognitive assessment tools -- Constipation -- Corticosteroid oral/intravenous equivalence -- Corticosteroids (topical) -- CosmoFer -- C-reactive protein -- CURB-65 -- Cushing's syndrome -- Cytotoxic chemotherapy waste -- D -- D-dimer -- Delirium -- Depression -- Diabetes insipidus (cranial) -- Diabetes mellitus -- Diabetes mellitus: management of hypoglycaemia ('hypo') in adults -- Diabetes mellitus: management of acute illness ('sick-day rules') -- Diabetes mellitus: monitoring and tests -- Diabetic ketoacidosis -- Digoxin -- Dobutamine -- Dopamine -- DVLA: advice concerning medication and medical conditions -- E -- Early warning score -- Emollients -- Endocarditis -- Enoxaparin dosing in unstable angina.

Enteral feeding systems and drug administration -- Epidural analgesia in the postoperative period -- Epilepsy: therapeutic drug monitoring of antiepileptics in adults -- Erythrocyte sedimentation rate -- Eye drops: use and care -- Eye ointments: use and care -- F -- Falls: pharmaceutical care -- Ferinject -- Fluid balance -- Food-drug interactions -- G -- Gastrointestinal bleeding risk management -- Gentamicin -- Glasgow Coma Scale -- Glucosamine -- Grapefruit juice-drug interactions -- H -- Human immunodeficiency virus treatment -- Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state -- Hypodermoclysis -- Hypopituitarism -- I -- Ideal body weight -- Immunoglobulin (normal) for intravenous administration -- Inflammatory bowel disease -- Inhaler devices in respiratory disease -- Insulins -- Insulin: variable-rate intravenous insulin infusion -- Interstitial lung disease -- Iron: guidance on parenteral dosing and administration -- K -- Kidney stones (renal calculi) -- L -- Lactose-free medicines -- Learning disability: caring for people with learning disability and other vulnerable patients -- LipidRescue -- Lithium: management and monitoring -- Liver disease (chronic) -- Liver function tests -- Low-molecular-weight heparin -- M -- Magnesium -- Medicines reconciliation -- Methotrexate: calcium folinate rescue regimen -- Monofer -- Mouth ulcers and sore mouth -- Multiple sclerosis: symptomatic management -- N -- Nausea and vomiting -- Neuroleptic malignant syndrome -- Neutropenic sepsis -- Nicotine replacement therapy -- 'Nil-by-mouth': management of long-term medicines during surgery -- Nutraceuticals for eye health -- O -- Omeprazole: parenteral administration -- Oncological emergencies -- Opioid comparative doses -- Opioid misuse management -- Opioid partial agonists -- Osteoporosis -- Oxygen -- P -- Pain management.

Palliative and end-of-life care -- Pancreatitis -- Parenteral nutrition: a practical overview -- Patient consultation -- Patient-controlled analgesia -- Phaeochromocytoma -- Pharmacocultural issues -- Phenytoin: management and monitoring -- Phosphate -- Postoperative nausea and vomiting -- Potassium -- Prescription charge exemptions and prepayment certificates -- Protamine -- Prothrombin complex concentrates -- Pulmonary function tests -- Pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary arterial hypertension -- Q -- Quinine for muscle cramps -- R -- Rapid tranquillisation -- Renal disease: assessment of renal function -- Renal disease: dosing in renal impairment and renal replacement therapy -- Renal disease: chronic kidney disease -- Renal replacement therapy: haemodialysis -- Renal replacement therapy: haemofiltration -- Renal replacement therapy: peritoneal dialysis -- Rheumatoid arthritis: drugs suppressing the disease process -- Rockall score for gastrointestinal bleed -- S -- Sarcoidosis -- Sclerosants for the management of malignant pleural effusions -- Serotonin syndrome -- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome due to sepsis scoring system -- Sodium -- Sterile larvae -- Stroke and transient ischaemic attack -- Suppositories -- Surgical pharmacy -- Synacthen (tetracosactide) tests -- Syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone -- Syringe pumps -- T -- Theophylline -- Thunderclap headache -- Thyroid function -- Tinzaparin dosing in pulmonary embolism and deep-vein thrombosis -- Tobramycin: monitoring and management -- Travel recommendations -- Tuberculosis -- V -- Vancomycin -- Venofer -- Vitamins and minerals -- von Willebrand disease -- W -- Warfarin treatment and monitoring -- Wells score for deep-vein thrombosis -- Wells score for pulmonary embolism -- Y -- Yellow Card scheme -- Z -- Zinc -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Glossary of terms.

Appendix 2 Laboratory reference ranges -- Appendix 3 Imperial-metric height conversion -- Appendix 4 Imperial-metric weight conversion -- Index.