The Drug Recognition Guide

<p><i>The Drug Recognition Guide&nbsp;</i>introduces&nbsp;an innovative&nbsp;method&nbsp;for&nbsp;recognising&nbsp;and&nbsp;categorising&nbsp;medications, enabling readers to&nbsp;easily identify the type and use of a generic drug by visually deconstructing its name. Through its creative use of&nbsp;colour-coded&nbsp;drug prefixes and suffixes, this pocket-sized guide makes generic drug names&nbsp;distinctive, logical,&nbsp;and easy to pronounce and remember.&nbsp;More than 700 drugs from&nbsp;over&nbsp;200&nbsp;different&nbsp;drug categories&nbsp;are catalogued and&nbsp;colour-highlighted&mdash;helping you understand what&nbsp;underlies&nbsp;a&nbsp;generic&nbsp;drug&nbsp;name.&nbsp;</p> <p>Organised&nbsp;by class and use, the book&rsquo;s ten chapters&nbsp;cover a comprehensive range of drugs, including&nbsp;chemotherapy and immunosuppressants,&nbsp;drugs that affect the&nbsp;cardiovascular&nbsp;and respiratory&nbsp;systems, drugs used&nbsp;to&nbsp;manage&nbsp;pain,&nbsp;treat infectious diseases, and many others.&nbsp;Each entry&nbsp;briefly&nbsp;summarises&nbsp;a particular&nbsp;class of drugs, describes the intended use of drugs within the class, and breaks down the&nbsp;&ldquo;name stems&rdquo;&nbsp;of individual drugs to reveal useful information and illustrate connections between chemically and therapeutically related medicines.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>Presenting an original, easy-to-use approach to the complex subject of drug classification, this invaluable learning aid:&nbsp;</p> <ul style=”margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: medium; margin-top: 0in;” type=”disc”> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline;”>Provides a thorough yet&nbsp;accessible&nbsp;way&nbsp;for students and practitioners&nbsp;to&nbsp;increase&nbsp;their&nbsp;understanding of medications and their application&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>Helps&nbsp;students&nbsp;to clearly read and pronounce even the most difficult generic drug names&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>Highlights the letters in generic drug names to enable students to&nbsp;recognise&nbsp;drugs immediately&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>Explains who assigns a generic drug name and what the name represents&nbsp;</li> <li style=”margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; user-select: text; -webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; cursor: text; overflow: visible;”>Includes an introduction&nbsp;to&nbsp;generic and&nbsp;proprietary&nbsp;drug names and design&nbsp;motifs&nbsp;</li> </ul> <p><i>The Drug Recognition Guide</i><i>&nbsp;</i>is essential reading for nursing&nbsp;and medical students, pharmacy&nbsp;students and technicians,&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;nurse practitioners and trainee and junior doctors.&nbsp;</p>