Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2009

Sanford will release Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2009 on April 2009. It is an update medical book for Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2008. This medical book is a great book for choosing Initial Choice of antibacterial therapy. In this medical book, you can find how long the duration of therapy to make optimum antimicrobial effects, you can understand the spectrum of antimicrobial activity. Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy 2009 also give you information about Highly Resistant Bacteria, Management of Community-Associated MRSA, and other important information to guide you understanding about antimicrobial therapy.


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Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment 2009 (CMDT 2009)

Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2009 is the world's most popular annually updated medical reference for practitioners and medical students in both hospital and ambulatory settings. Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2009 delivers the latest developments in signs, symptoms, epidemiology, etiology, and treatment for over 1,000 diseases and disorders. This medical book delivers authoritative, evidence-based coverage of more than one thousand diseases and disorders along with a clear synopsis of diagnosis and treatment.

House officers, medical students, and all other health professions students will find the latest developments in diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, with citations to the current reference, of everyday usefulness in patient care. Internists, family physicians, hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physicians' assistants, and all primary care providers will appreciate CMDT as a best literature and refresher text. Physicians in other specialties, pharmacists, and dentists will find the book a useful basic medical book. Nurses, nurse-practitioners, and physicians' assistants will welcome the format and scope of the book as a means of referencing latest medical diagnosis and treatment. Patients and their family members who seek useful information about the nature of specific diseases and their diagnoses and treatment may also find this medical book to be a valuable resource.

What is new in this edition?
# Color insert expanded to 16 pages
# Updated topics reflecting the latest epidemiology, etiology, and diagnosis and treatment recommendations
# New chapter on Disorders of Hemostasis & Antithrombotic Therapy
# Many chapters on specific disorders have been reorganized to emphasize disease states including geriatric disorders, skin disorders, disorders of the Eyes & lids, heart disorders, pulmonary disorders, gastrointestinal disturbances, disturbances nervous system, nutritional disorders, common problems in infectious diseases and antimicrobial treatment, bacterial infections and chlamydia, infections Spirochetal, and mycotic infections
# Completely revamped End of Life Chapter, now called Palliative Care & Pain Management to reflect its new emphasis
# Symptoms chapter has been expanded to include more symptoms (eg, palpitations) and provide further information on the treatment
# Reorganization Cancer chapter includes common cancers and highlights the most current therapeutic advances
# The evolution of HIV infection, including new drugs, which is currently recommended treatment, and updated information on resistance to antiretroviral drugs
# New information on alternative medicine and complementary therapies, including sections on mind-body medicine on clinical hypnosis, biofeedback, meditation, attention, stress reduction and cognitive therapy and the Guided imagery
# Update on antibiotics, antiviral and antifungal
# Drug information, bibliographies, Web sites and updated in June 2008
# Sections on asthma (includes 2007 NAEPP guidelines) and palpitations
# More algorithms throughout and increased coverage of Canadian and International Guidelines

CMDT 2009 also has outstanding features:
# Medical advances up to time of annual publication
# Information on all areas of primary health care, including gynecology, obstetrics, dermatology, ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, psychiatry, neurology, toxicology, urology, geriatrics, preventative medicine and palliative care
# Concise format, which facilitates the efficient use in any application
# More than 1,000 diseases and disorders
# Text Only with annual update on HIV infection
# Prevention and information about the cost
# Simple access to doses of drugs, the names and prices aupdated in each edition
# References with unique identifiers (PubMed, PMID numbers) quick to access article summaries, and in some cases, the full text of articles for reference.

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The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy, 2008

Jean Pool said that this medical book provides great information and concise. The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy is a great book for dosing, length of course and concerns for age groups, allergies and other health concerns bearing closer watching.

Jung Hun Chae recommend "The Sanford Guide to Antimicrobial Therapy" to pharmacist. This medical book is very useful and efficient for the hospital pharmacist. The book size is so small even sometimes hard to noticeable in our pocket. The dosage and indication is well defined.
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Pharmacotherapy : A Pathophysiologic Approach

From The New England Journal of Medicine, May 18, 2000
"Medicines," wrote Leonardo da Vinci, "will be well used when the doctor understands their nature, what man is, what life is, and what constitution and health are. Know these well and you will know their opposites; you will then know well how to devise a remedy." As the coauthor of a textbook on clinical pharmacology and drug therapy for medical students, in which this principle is espoused, I applaud any attempt by others to do likewise. That is indeed the basis for this textbook on drug therapy for clinical pharmacists.

An introductory section on some of the basic principles of clinical pharmacology is followed by 16 sections on the management of diseases, organized according to systems of the body. In each of the chapters dealing with individual diseases, the authors first discuss the pathophysiologic principles and then outline the methods of drug therapy appropriate to each, firmly grounding the therapy in the context of the pathophysiology. Some of the sections on systems of the body include accounts of the evaluation of the diseases to which the system is prey. In each case, the arguments for using one drug or another are based on the most recent evidence, cited in the bibliography at the end of each chapter, although one of the cornerstones of evidence-based medicine, the number of patients who would need to be treated to produce a given outcome (known as the number needed to treat), is conspicuously absent. The discussions are for the most part excellent, but the chapters that include contributions from physicians have a slight edge over those that do not.

It is strange that such a high-quality text is not accompanied by better diagrams. Although there are several good anatomical diagrams, there are few that illustrate normal physiology or the pathophysiology of disease, and those that are provided do not show the use of drugs and where they act. In contrast, for virtually every condition, there is a flow chart indicating what to do when a test is positive or negative, when a patient has a particular clinical feature that might modify therapy, or when a patient does or does not have a response to treatment. But these diagrams are difficult to use. Moreover, their rigid format does not accommodate an understanding that the enormous variability among the patients one encounters in everyday practice greatly militates against such an approach in all but the simplest stepwise problem, such as the treatment of asthma, which is clearly illustrated by the simplicity of the flow chart for asthma.

The introductory chapters are disappointing. To open with a chapter on the economics of drug therapy surely gives the wrong emphasis, even in an increasingly cost-conscious health care system. The chapter on pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics sets a high bar to vault, and other chapters are too short to allow their authors a long enough run up to succeed. An introduction of only 90 pages (less than 4 percent of the text) is not enough, although to be fair, some general aspects of drug therapy are discussed in other chapters (for instance, there is a description of how to alter drug dosages in the section on renal disorders). I found few mistakes in the book and none of importance, except for the curious dose ranges for angiotensin-converting-enzyme inhibitors listed in the chapter on heart failure, with daily doses as high as 400 mg given for drugs such as enalapril.

This book is a good reference for clinical pharmacists who can create their own diagrams. But to get the most out of the text, they will need to know their basics pretty well and be prepared to flesh out certain points by consulting the review literature.

Jeffrey K. Aronson, D.Phil., F.R.C.P.
Copyright © 2000 Massachusetts Medical Society. All rights reserved. The New England Journal of Medicine is a registered trademark of the MMS. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this titl

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