Product Description

Learn How to Apply the Principles of Pharmacotherapy to Real-World Clinical Practice!

Pharmacotherapy Casebook sharpens the problem-solving and clinical decision-making skills you need to identify and resolve commonly encountered drug problems. This new edition is packed with more than 150 patient cases -- almost all of them new or revised -- and makes the perfect study companion to the seventh edition of DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach.

Everything you need to develop expertise in pharmacotherapy decision making:

• Realistic patient presentations include medical history, physical examination, and laboratory data, followed by a series of questions using a systematic, problem-solving approach
• Compelling range of cases -- from the uncomplicated (a single disease state) to the complex (multiple disease states and drug-related problems)
• Diverse authorship, with cases provided by 180 clinicians from 94 institutions
• Casebook sections conveniently categorized by body organ system to correspond with the DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy textbook
• Coverage that integrates the biomedical and pharmaceutical sciences with therapeutics
• Appendix containing valuable information on pharmacy abbreviations, laboratory texts, mathematical conversion factors, anthropometrics, and sample responses to case questions

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39169 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 432 pages

Review
"The Pharmacotherapy Casebook should be seriously considered as a required text for pharmacotherapeutics courses. Those educational programs wishing to incorporate more student-centered learning experiences will find this book to be an invaluable resource. The complementary nature of the textbook, which focuses on content, and the casebook which focuses on content, and the casebook, which focuses on the problem-solving process, allows almost limitless flexibility of use in a number of different learning environment." (The Annals of Pharmacotherapy )

From the Back Cover
Pharmacotherapy Casebook is the perfect working tool to help students develop the essential skills required to identify and resolve drug therapy problems. Using a consistent, problem-solving approach, this new edition helps readers enhance their pharmacotherapeutic skills.

The authors include updated and revised patient cases involving 145 disease states. Sixteen new disease states have been added to this edition, along with a new chapter on Pharmaceutical Care Plans. Each case includes a realistic patient presentation with medical history, physical examination, and laboratory data followed by a series of questions employing a systematic, problem-solving approach. By using these real world cases to practice creating, defending, and implementing pharmaceutical care plans, students can develop the skills necessary to make the critical decisions required in their practice.

Organized into organ system sections that correspond to Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 5e, this authoritative casebook is an outstanding learning tool for educational programs. It is also a valuable resource for independent study and staff development.

FEATURES:
* Draws upon the expertise of 170 authors from across the U.S. and Canada
* Presents an individualized therapeutic approach to disease state management
* Employs a consistent problem-solving approach that provides practice in creating, defending, and implementing pharmaceutical care plans
* Provides three levels of case complexity that correspond to different experience levels of students
* Contains Appendices with reference ranges for common laboratory tests, common medical abbreviations, and sample responses to case questions
* NEW TO THIS EDITION: Each case has been revised and 16 completely new disease states have been added; includes cases and a separate section that contain questions related to herbal therapies.

About the Author

Terry L. Schwinghammer, PharmD, FCCP, FASHP, BCPS, Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, West Virginia University School of Pharmacy, Morgantown, WV

Julia M. Koehler, PharmD, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Butler University, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences; and Clinical Pharmacist in Family Medicine, Methodist Hospital and the Indiana University-Methodist Family Practice Center, Clarian Health Partners, Indianapolis, IN

Customer Reviews

good study aid
I have used this book to aid my studies in therapeutics. While professors gave some cases, the cases in this book helped immensely to get the information down pat.

Pharmacotherapy casebook with no answers.
I purchased this item along with the Pharmacotherapy text book. It provides a number of scenarios for each chapter. The first scenario is relatively easy, the second is pretty tough to work through. The negative part of this is that it doesn't tell you the answers to the cases, nor the best way to go about getting to the answer. It does show you that everything isn't a text book case. Some of the cases are very random, just like patients are going to be. I guess it provides a real life lesson, sometimes there is no best answer and the true judgement is in the eyes of the practitioner. Nevertheless, I still gave it an ok rating because I'm trying to learn the material and this is just a bunch of scenarios with no answers.

Cases have no recommended solutions to learn from
This product looked great from the reviews. However, once received and opened, as mentioned in other reviews, there are no answers, recommendations, or even considerations given to each case. To draw an analogy, it is like having a calculus book that gives you a complex problem and says, you figure out the answer and then provides not even a method to consider for the problem or if your calculations are even on the right path.

The reader is presented with, 'Here is the problem,' but no answer. The book mentions that it is designed to be used in group discussion and students should figure out if it is correct as a group. If you don't have a PharmD around to mentor and check your solution, you are out of luck and will gain no learning value from it as someone looking to learn pharmacotherapy using cases as the basis.