Features a unit on drug therapy across the lifespan that consolidates content on implications for drug therapy in pregnant, breastfeeding, pediatric, and geriatric patients. Provides key points at the end of every chapter to emphasize essential principles and applications. Includes separate chapters on special topics , including individual variations in drug responses, drug abuse of alcohol, review of hemodynamics, review of the immune system, pediatric immunizations, drugs that affect calcium levels and bone mineralization, and miscellaneous noteworthy drugs. Highlights clinically significant adverse effects and drug interactions for each drug . Covers drugs in small, manageable chapters .
Content is more accessible and less intimidating.