Integrated Cardiopulmonary Pharmacology
by
Bruce J. Colbert
Barbara J. Mason
Welcome to the online study guide designed to accompany Integrated Cardiopulmonary Pharmacology by Bruce Colbert and Barb Mason. This website is a free auxiliary to the textbook, providing students and instructors with an interactive teaching and learning tool. Here you will find review exercises based on the content of this exciting new text.
At the completion of each multiple choice section you may submit your answers to receive an instant score of your results. Additionally, instructors may assign these quizzes as homework and ask students to route their answers to them using the Email Results function.
Selected chapters on the website contain an exciting array of animations and movies to help supplement the book content. Click on these links to see concepts come to life through graphical and real-life demonstrations. The website also includes an audio glossary that defines and pronounces key words in the text, as well as a full set of PowerPoint lecture slides to accompany each chapter. Some chapters contain Extended Concepts, which are additional pieces of content not found in the book, as well as trade and generic drug terminology. A comprehensive directory of reading references is also included.
Finally, we encourage those instructors interested in developing distance learning courses to explore the site's Syllabus Manager feature, which enables instructors to create and maintain a class syllabus online while also allowing you access to the syllabus at any time from any computer on the Internet.
To get started, simply select a chapter from the menu bar on the top left of the page, or click on one of the chapters titles below. Good luck!
CONTENTS:
1. General Pharmacological Principles.
2. The Metric System and Drug Dosage Calculations.
3. Pharmacology of the Autonomic Nervous System.
4. Medicated Aerosol Treatments.
5. Bronchodilators.
6. Mucokinetics and Surfactants.
7. Anti-Inflammatory and Antiasthmatic Agents.
8. Anti-Infective Agents.
9. Cardiac and Renal Agents.
10. Blood Pressure and Antithrombotic Agents.
11. Neuromuscular, Anesthetic, Sedative, and Analgesic Agents.
12. Therapeutic Medical Gases.
13. COPD: The Pharmacological Treatment of Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, and Emphysema.
14. Pharmacologic Treatment of Respiratory Infectious Disease.
15. Pharmacology for Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
