Cardiovascular Drug Therapy

From The Critics

Reviewer: Katherine Barry Frame, MSN, RN(Boston College School of Nursing)
Description: This is a new quick reference book with a primary focus on cardiovascular drug therapy that is segmented into two components: cardiovascular disorders and treatments and cardiovascular drugs. The cardiovascular disorder and treatment segment is alphabetized to facilitate quick access. The second component on specific cardiac drugs addresses the pharmacokinetics, contraindications, reactions, interactions, and interventions.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a quick reference for practitioners and students in assessing planning, implementing, and evaluating cardiac drugs. It also provides an abbreviated description of typically seen cardiac disorders and a patient teaching checklist to individual drugs.
Audience: This book would be helpful to practitioners from the different disciplines who provide care to clients with cardiac disease in either an acute or long-term setting.
Features: This book is user friendly. It is small and manageable, allowing for quick and easy access with sufficient detail for this purpose. It also includes patient teaching for individual drugs as well as a "med-test" component for individual drugs. Some of the drug agents have a clearly designated segment highlighting incompatability warnings and/or interactions alert.
Assessment: This book is useful for nurses and nursing students on a cardiac or long-term care unit. Although it lacks the depth of some official drug reference texts, it serves a useful purpose in that it allows quick access for significant information in a fast-paced setting. Although the book has a foreword and introduction by two practitioners (RN and MD), it is an unauthored book, which diminishes its overall reliability.

Katherine Barry Frame

This is a new quick reference book with a primary focus on cardiovascular drug therapy that is segmented into two components: cardiovascular disorders and treatments and cardiovascular drugs. The cardiovascular disorder and treatment segment is alphabetized to facilitate quick access. The second component on specific cardiac drugs addresses the pharmacokinetics, contraindications, reactions, interactions, and interventions. The purpose is to provide a quick reference for practitioners and students in assessing planning, implementing, and evaluating cardiac drugs. It also provides an abbreviated description of typically seen cardiac disorders and a patient teaching checklist to individual drugs. This book would be helpful to practitioners from the different disciplines who provide care to clients with cardiac disease in either an acute or long-term setting. This book is user friendly. It is small and manageable, allowing for quick and easy access with sufficient detail for this purpose. It also includes patient teaching for individual drugs as well as a med-test component for individual drugs. Some of the drug agents have a clearly designated segment highlighting incompatability warnings and/or interactions alert. This book is useful for nurses and nursing students on a cardiac or long-term care unit. Although it lacks the depth of some official drug reference texts, it serves a useful purpose in that it allows quick access for significant information in a fast-paced setting. Although the book has a foreword and introduction by two practitioners (RN and MD), it is an unauthored book, which diminishes its overall reliability.

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