Essentials of Pharmacology for Anesthesia, Pain Medicine, and Critical Care

Part I. Basic Pharmacologic Principles.- 1. Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Anesthetics.- 2. A Review of Mechanisms of Inhalational Anesthetic Agents.- 3. Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and physical properties of Inhalational agents.- 4. Principles of Total Intravenous Anesthesia.- 5. Perioperative Considerations in Pharmacology.- Part II. Drug Classes.- 6. Anesthetic Induction Agents.- 7. Analgesics: Opiate agonists, mixed agonist/antagonists and antagonists for acute pain management.- 8. Analgesics: Opioids for chronic pain management and surgical considerations.- 9. Nonopioid Analgesic and Adjunct Drugs.- 10. Benzodiazepines and muscle relaxants.- 11. Pharmacology of Local Anesthetics.- 12. Neuromuscular Blockers.- 13. Reversal agents.- 14. Drugs acting on the autonomic nervous system.- 15. Antihypertensives, diuretics and antidysrhythmics.- 16. Peripheral vasodilators.- 17. Nitric oxide and Pulmonary Vasodilators.- 18. Asthma and COPD agents.- 19. Hormones, Part 1: Thyroid and Corticosteroid Hormones.- 20. Hormones, Part 2: Insulin and Other glucose controlling Medications.- 21. Antacids, Gastrointestinal Prokinetics, And Proton Pump Inhibitors.- 22. Histamine modulators.- 23. Central Nervous System Stimulants.- 24. Anticoagulant drugs.- 25. Hemostatic Agents.- 26. BLOOD, BLOOD PRODUCTS, AND SUBSTITUTES.- 27. Antipyretics: Acetaminophen, Arachidonic Acid Agents, Cox1 And Cox2 Inhibitors.- 28. Antiemetic Agents.- 29. Antiepileptics agents.- 30. Neuropharmacologic agents for neurologic conditions.- 31. Chemotherapeutic Agents.- 32. Antimicrobial Agents.- 33. Herbals medications and vitamin supplements.- 34. Minerals and electrolytes.- 35. Disinfection agents and antiseptics.- 36. Psychopharmacologic agents and psychiatric drug considerations.- 37. Cocaine, Methamphetamine, MDMA and Heroin.- Part III. Clinical Subspecialties.- 38. Cardiac surgery.- 39. The Intensive Care Unit.- 40. Enteral and parenteral nutrition.- 41. Obstetrics.- 42. Pediatrics.- 43. Neurologic Surgery.- 44. Liver disease and liver transplantation.- Part IV. Special Topics.- 45. Black Box FDA warnings and legal implications.- 46. Drug-Induced QT Prolongation.- 47. Drugs and Cancer Propagation.- 48. Lipid Lowering Agents.- 49. Serotonin Syndrome.- Part V. New Vistas in Pharmacology.- 50. Novel Psychoactive Substances: synthetic cathinones and cannabinoid receptor agonists.- 51. New Vistas in Anesthetics, IV Induction Agents.- 52. New Vistas In Neuromuscular Blockers.- 53. Patient-Controlled Analgesia: The Importance of Effector Site Pharmacokinetics.- 54. Understanding anesthesia-induced memory loss.- 55. Novel Targets of Current Analgesic Drug Development.