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Safe and effective prescribing is a cornerstone of proper patient care. There has in recent years been a significant increase in the numbers of healthcare professionals able to prescribe; however, sources of drug information tend to focus on only one area of prescribing. The Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy links practical information about how to use medicines with concise details about the pharmacology of a drug, and the principles of clinical pharmacology that govern its action.The overall structure of this handbook is similar to the UK national formulary, with topics on each drug arranged broadly by therapeutic category. When a drug has several different uses, these are brought together in a single topic, allowing the reader to appreciate its full range of actions, whether therapeutic or adverse.Each drugs topic provides information in a clearly laid out and standardised form, and includes a graphical representation of the pharmacological actions of the drug, and its potential uses, practical advice on a drug's major indications, a list of common and serious adverse effects, major drug-drug interactions, practical advice on monitoring for therapeutic and adverse effects, and what to tell the patient.Teaching points throughout the text draw out pharmacological principles, so that readers can increase their basic knowledge by linking theory with practical examples. Also included are several boxes giving guidance on the approach to therapy of specific diseases an clinical problems. In some cases, algorithms for the treatment of medical emergencies are given, and this new edition features case histories throughout the text to illustrate the issues one may face in practical prescribing.The Oxford Handbook of Practical Drug Therapy brings together for the first time in a single book really practical information on safe prescribing, with the background knowledge that underpins clinical pharmacology. Fully revised with new guidance and important safety information, this book is aimed primarily at medical students and trainees, it will also be invaluable to family doctors, clinical pharmacists, and nurse prescribers.

Being a seventies kidLet’s be honest, being a seventies kid was the best.Riding around all day on your bike, eating and drinking tens of thousands of calories before anyone knew what a calorie was. Health and safety just a glint in a really boring person’s eye. Crashpads?! Helmets?! Seatbelts?! Rub some dirt on it.Prawn cocktail, Angel Delight, Arctic Roll. All washed down with gallons of delicious fruity creamy Cresta. You want something fizzy instead? We make our own drinks fizzy now. Deal with it.Glam rock, Punk and Disco?! Enough said. The air heady with the commingling scent of Brut and Anais Anais. Though admittedly long term it wasn’t a wholly positive thing, smoking was cool. Colour TV, video recorders and answering machines. Welcome to the future.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. Taking in more than 500 questions across Film, TV, Music, Arts & Culture, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Games and toys, Celebrities, Sport, Fashion and design, Technology, Crazes & Fads, Idioms and Sayings, Books and Magazines and with one Super Dooper Impossibly Hard question per round, there’s something for everyone.And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

Let’s be honest, being an eighties kid was the best.You could play outside because paedophiles hadn’t been formally invented yet. Computers couldn’t talk to each other: they had to live, silent but next to each other, in places called arcades.Findus Crispy Pancakes, Viennetta, or perhaps signor would prefer some of Gino Ginelli’s Toffee Fooogee?Playing games on Ceefax. Bagpuss, Fingermouse, Button Moon. Beat that. Looking at the world though your View-Master. Being stressed about acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer (which are both okay now?). Five hours of cartoons on a Saturday morning, most of which were reverse-engineered adverts for plastic toys. 0181 811 8181!New Wave, post-punk. Madonna! Taping the radio. The air heady with the co-mingling scent of Cool Water and Obsession. Though admittedly it wasn’t a wholly positive thing long-term, smoking was still cool.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. There are more than 500 questions across Film, TV, Music, Arts & Culture, Current Affairs, Food and Drink, Games and Toys, Celebrities, Sport, Fashion and Design, Technology, Crazes & Fads, Idioms and Sayings, and Books and Magazines. And with one Super Dooper Impossibly Hard question per round, there’s something for everyone.And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

Let’s be honest, being a nineties kid was the best.The internet was dial-up, and you had to decide whether you wanted to have a phone or the internet because you couldn’t have both. Blue Peter had to explain what an email address was for what felt like an entire decade. Physical media was still a thing. Terrestrial TV. Recording films off the TV and keeping them, which meant you got to watch old Argos adverts too. The closest thing to social media was doing impressions of Chandler Bing in the playground. Could we be any more excited?Pop-Tarts, Capri-Sun, cheese-finally-available-as-string. Electronic pets. Pagers and stackable pencils. Is sir more of a French crop or a curtains man? Hardly anyone had a mobile phone yet, but some people’s dads had a car phone. You’d say a time to meet people and they had to be there. You’d talk to people on an actual landline, winding the cord around your fingers. The air was heavy with the scent of Lynx Africa and Fuzzy Peach body spray.Here, in quiz book form, is a celebration of those glorious years. And the best thing is, you don’t have to have that haircut this time around.

You may take my ballsBut I will lick what remainsAnd then, dear, your faceImagine if your dog could talk to you. Better still, imagine if it could express its innermost feelings in poetic form. This hilarious, insightful book confirms what we've all long suspected - that inside every dog is the soul of a poet. From retrieving sticks to rivalry with cats; from cold winter walks to endlessly chasing tennis balls, no stone of a dog's life is left unturned.With a delightful photo alongside every haiku, this is the perfect gift for any dog lover.

From the author of What I Lick Before Your Face comes this hilarious companion, Please Stop Touching Me ... and Other Haikus by Cats.Jamie Coleman returns with this brilliant collection of feline flights of fancy. His hilarious haikus take us inside the minds of our most popular pets revealing their inner-most secrets, their disdain for their owners and the poetry that is common to all cats.Featuring over 50 haikus complete with glorious images, this is a hysterical gift for cat lovers, cat haters, and poetry enthusiasts alike.