Author

McPherson, Mary Lynn M

Corporate Author

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Place of Publication

[Bethesda, MD]

Publisher

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

xii, 196 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Subjects

Analgesics, Opioid - administration & dosage

Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use

Drug Dosage Calculations

ISBN

9781585281985

1585281980

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Kelowna Library

Surrey Library

Victoria Library

Call Number

QV89 M478d 2010

Copies

Author

Shank, Brandon R.

Zimmerman, David E.

Corporate Author

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Place of Publication

[Bethesda, MD]

Publisher

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

Publication Date

2016

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Pharmaceutical Preparations - administration & dosage

Obesity - complications

Drug Dosage Calculations

Pharmacokinetics

Abstract

Table of Contents

1: INTRODUCTION TO DOSING MEDICATIONS IN OBESE PATIENTS

2: ANTIMICROBIAL DOSING IN OBESITY

3: ANTICOAGULANTS AND ANTIPLATELETS

4: CRITICAL CARE

5: ANTIEPILEPTICS

6: DOSING ANTINEOPLASTIC MEDICATIONS IN OBESE PATIENTS

7: PEDIATRICS

8: IMMUNOSUPPRESSION DOSING IN OBESE SOLID ORGAN TRANSPLANT RECIPIENTS

9: ANALGESICS

10: MEDICATION ABSORPTION IN BARIATRIC SURGERY

ISBN

1585284815

9781585284818

9781585284825

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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Corporate Author

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Editor

Price, Judith A

Place of Publication

Seattle, WA

Publisher

IASP Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

xvii, 354 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - complications

Pain

Analgesics, Opioid - therapeutic use

Pain - drug therapy

Palliative Care

Abstract

"This book provides an in-depth analysis of basic and clinical research on cancer pain. It describes mechanisms of cancer pain and reviews opioid treatment issues, including tolerance. The book discusses clinical trial designs, covers the psychology of cancer pain, and describes disparities in the availability of cancer care worldwide" Provided by publisher.

ISBN

9780931092817

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WL700 C214p 2010

Copies

Alternate Title

CPCF

Author

Twycross, Robert

Edition

Canadian ed.

Place of Publication

Nottingham, UK

Publisher

Palliativedrugs.com Ltd.

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

xxvii, 617 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subjects

Palliative Care - methods

Analgesics - therapeutic use

Pain - drug therapy

Drug Therapy

Therapeutics

Formularies

ISBN

9780955254741

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Kelowna Library

Surrey Library

Victoria Library

Abbotsford Library

Call Number

WB310 P162 2010

Copies

Author

Kearon, Clive

Akl, Elie A.

Ornelas, Joseph

Place of Publication

Glenview, IL

Publisher

American College of Chest Physicians

Publication Date

2016

Subjects

Drug Administration Schedule

Evidence-Based Medicine - standards

Fibrinolytic Agents - administration & dosage

Fibrinolytic Agents - therapeutic use

International Normalized Ratio

Venous Thrombosis - blood

Venous Thrombosis - drug therapy

ISSN

1931-3543

Language

English

Material Type

Report

Online

Serial

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Website Notes

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PDF available for download

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Chemotherapy and immunotherapy : guidelines and recommendations for practice. 2019

Editor

Polovich, Martha

Olsen, MiKaela

LeFebvre, Kristine B

Edition

4th ed.

Place of Publication

Pittsburgh, PA

Publisher

Oncology Nursing Society

Publication Date

2014

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage

Antineoplastic Agents - adverse effects

Neoplasms - nursing

Biological Therapy

Biological Factors - therapeutic use

Nurses' Instruction

Practice Guideline

Outlines

ISBN

9781935864332

1935864335

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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Alternate Title

Sanford guide

Guide to antimicrobial therapy

Editor

Gilbert, David N.

Chambers, Henry F.

Eliopoulos, George M.

Edition

46th pocket ed.

Place of Publication

Sperryville, VA

Publisher

Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc.

Publication Date

2016

Physical Description

254 p. ; 17 cm.

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Anti-Infective Agents - therapeutic use

Anti-bacterial agents - therapeutic use

Antibiotics - therapeutic use

Bacterial Infections - drug therapy

Tables

ISBN

9781930808911

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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Alternate Title

Sanford guide

Guide to antimicrobial therapy

Editor

Gilbert, David N.

Eliopoulos, George M.

Chambers, Henry F.

Edition

47th pocket ed.

Place of Publication

Sperryville, VA

Publisher

Antimicrobial Therapy, Inc.

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

256 p. ; 17 cm.

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Anti-Infective Agents - therapeutic use

Anti-bacterial agents - therapeutic use

Antibiotics - therapeutic use

Bacterial Infections - drug therapy

Tables

ISBN

1944272003

9781944272005

9781944272036

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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Editor

Chabner, Bruce A

Longo, Dan L

Edition

5th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

xv, 812 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Biological Therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use

Biological Products - therapeutic use

ISBN

971605474311

1605474312

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Website Notes

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Editor

Skeel, Roland T

Khleif, Samir N

Edition

8th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

xiv, 875 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage

Handbooks

ISBN

9781608317820

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Kelowna Library

Surrey Library

Victoria Library

Abbotsford Library

Call Number

QZ267 H236 2011

Copies

Alternate Title

Cancer chemotherapy and biotherapy

Editor

Chabner, Bruce A.

Longo, Dan L.

Edition

6th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer

Publication Date

2019

Physical Description

xii, 656 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use

Biological Products - therapeutic use

Biological Therapy

Neoplasms - therapy

ISBN

9781496375148

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Abbotsford Library

Kelowna Library

Victoria Library

Call Number

QZ267 C218 2019

Copies

Alternate Title

Vidaza : azacitidine for injection

Author

Celgene

Place of Publication

[Summit, NJ]

Publisher

Celgene Corporation

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

33 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Subjects

Azacitidine - therapeutic use

Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use

Leukemia, Myeloid, Acute - drug therapy

Myelodysplastic Syndromes - drug therapy

Oncology Nursing

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

WY156 N974 2010

Copies

Alternate Title

Journal of the ICRU volume 10, number 1, 2010

Corporate Author

International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements

Place of Publication

Oxford

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

106 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Series

ICRU report 83

Journal of the ICRU 10:1

Subjects

Neoplasms - radiotherapy

Radiometry

Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted

Radiotherapy, High Energy

Photons - therapeutic use

Radiotherapy Dosage

ISSN

1473-6691

Language

English

Material Type

Serial

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

WN650 I61 2010 v.83

Copies

Alternate Title

Compendium of therapeutic choices

Therapeutic choices

Author

Adamko, Darryl J.

Arnason, Terra

Bailey, Benoit

Corporate Author

Canadian Pharmacists Association

Edition

[8th ed]

Place of Publication

[Ottawa, ON]

Publisher

Canadian Pharmacists Association

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

xxvi, 1969 p. ; 24 cm.

Subjects

Drug Therapy

Pharmaceutical Preparations - administration & dosage

Disease - diagnosis

Medicine

Handbooks

Notes

Ch. 126 Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting authored by Lynne Nakashima.

ISBN

9781894402989

ISSN

2368-0210

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library REF

Abbotsford Library REF

Victoria Library REF

Call Number

WB300 C737 2017

Copies

Editor

Perry, Michael C

Doll, Donald C

Freter, Carl E

Edition

5th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Publication Date

2012

Physical Description

xi, 833 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - therapeutic use

ISBN

9781451101454

1451101457

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Call Number

QZ267 C520 2012

Copies

Corporate Author

Committee on the Health Effects of Marijuana: An Evidence Review and Research Agenda, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Health and Medicine Division.

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Place of Publication

Washington, DC

Publisher

National Academies Press

Publication Date

2017

Physical Description

486 p.

Subjects

Cannabis

Cannabis - drug effects

Cannabinoids

Cannabinoids - therapeutic use

Medical Marijuana

Dose-Response Relationship, Drug

Health Policy

Risk Assessment

United States

Abstract

PART I: INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

1 INTRODUCTION

2 CANNABIS

3 CANNABIS: PREVALENCE OF USE, REGULATION, AND CURRENT POLICY LANDSCAPE

PART II: THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS

4 THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS OF CANNABIS AND CANNABINOIDS

PART III: OTHER HEALTH EFFECTS

5 CANCER

7 RESPIRATORY DISEASE

8 IMMUNITY

9 INJURY AND DEATH

10 PRENATAL, PERINATAL, AND NEONATAL EXPOSURE TO CANNABIS

11 PSYCHOSOCIAL

12 MENTAL HEALTH

13 PROBLEM CANNABIS USE

14 CANNABIS USE AND THE ABUSE OF OTHER SUBSTANCES

PART IV: RESEARCH BARRIERS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

15 CHALLENGES AND BARRIERS IN CONDUCTING CANNABIS RESEARCH

16 RECOMMENDATIONS TO SUPPORT AND IMPROVE THE CANNABIS RESEARCH AGENDA

APPENDIXES

ISBN

9780309453042

9780309453073

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

Website Notes

E-book available in HTML and PDF formats

Corporate Author

International Association for the Study of Pain

Editor

Beaulieu, Pierre

Place of Publication

Seattle, WA

Publisher

IASP Press

Publication Date

2010

Physical Description

xiv, 622 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subjects

Analgesics - pharmacology

Pain - drug therapy

ISBN

9780931092787

0931092787

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Library

Call Number

QV95 P536 2010

Copies

Alternate Title

Handbook of cancer chemotherapy

Editor

Khleif, Samir N.

Rixe, Olivier

Skeel, Roland T.

Edition

9th ed.

Place of Publication

Philadelphia, PA

Publisher

Wolters Kluwer Health

Publication Date

2016

Series

R2 Library

Subjects

Neoplasms - therapy

Antineoplastic Agents - administration & dosage

Handbooks

Abstract

Table of Contents:

I BASIC PRINCIPLES AND CONSIDERATIONS OF RATIONAL CHEMOTHERAPY AND MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY -- BIOLOGIC AND PHARMACOLOGIC BASIS OF CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY --BIOLOGIC BASIS OF MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY -- PRINCIPLES OF CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY -- SYSTEMATIC ASSESSMENT OF THE PATIENT WITH CANCER AND CONSEQUENCES OF TREATMENT -- SELECTION OF TREATMENT FOR THE PATIENT WITH CANCER -- II MEDICAL THERAPIES OF HUMAN CANCER -- CARCINOMAS OF THE HEAD AND NECK -- CARCINOMA OF THE LUNG -- CARCINOMAS OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT -- CARCINOMAS OF THE PANCREAS, LIVER, GALLBLADDER, AND BILE DUCTS -- CARCINOMA OF THE BREAST -- GYNECOLOGIC CANCER -- UROLOGIC AND MALE GENITAL CANCERS -- KIDNEY CANCER -- ENDOCRINE CANCERS -- MELANOMAS AND OTHER CUTANEOUS MALIGNANCIES -- PRIMARY AND METASTATIC BRAIN TUMORS -- SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMAS -- BONE SARCOMAS -- ACUTE LEUKEMIAS -- CHRONIC LEUKEMIAS -- MYELOPROLIFERATIVE NEOPLASMS AND MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROMES -- HODGKIN LYMPHOMA -- NON-HODGKIN LYMPHOMA -- MULTIPLE MYELOMA, OTHER PLASMA CELL DISORDERS, AND PRIMARY AMYLOIDOSIS -- METASTATIC CANCER OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN -- III SUPPORTIVE CARE OF PATIENTS WITH CANCER -- SIDE EFFECTS OF CHEMOTHERAPY -- SIDE EFFECTS OF IMMUNE THERAPY -- IV CHEMOTHERAPEUTIC AND MOLECULAR TARGETED AGENTS AND THEIR USE -- CLASSIFICATION, USE, AND TOXICITY OF CLINICALLY USEFUL CHEMOTHERAPY AND MOLECULAR TARGETED THERAPY

ISBN

1496305558

9781496305558

9781496353399

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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Editor

Lyman, Gary H

Dale, David C

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Publisher

Springer

Publication Date

2011

Physical Description

xv, 433 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series

Cancer treatment and research 157

Subjects

Neoplasms - drug therapy

Colony-Stimulating Factors - therapeutic use

Colony-Stimulating Factors - pharmacology

ISBN

9781441970725

144197072X

Language

English

Material Type

Book

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Vancouver Library

Internet

Call Number

QZ267 H487 2011

Copies

Corporate Author

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Place of Publication

[Bethesda, MD]

Publisher

National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements

Publication Date

2015

Physical Description

1 online resource

Series

Proquest Ebook Central

NCRP commentary 24

Subjects

Radiation Exposure - adverse effects

Radiation, Ionizing

Radiation Dosage

Abstract

Table of Contents:

Cover -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Low Doses and Low Dose Rates -- 1.2 Use of Radiation Biology Data to Reduce the Uncertainty in Risk Estimates -- 2. General Approaches to Risk Assessment -- 2.1 Risk Assessment Process and Associated Uncertainties -- 2.2 Modeling Uncertainties: Dosimetric, Epidemiologic and Biological -- 2.3 Transfer of Risk Between Populations of Different Countries -- 2.4 Extrapolating Low-Dose Effects from In Vitro to In Vivo -- Animal to Human -- 3. Studies Integrating Biology and Epidemiology -- 3.1 Epidemiologic Studies Focused on Cancer Outcomes -- 3.1.1 Chromosome Aberration Studies -- 3.1.2 Atomic-Bomb Survivors -- 3.1.3 Pelvic Irradiation Studies -- 3.1.4 Occupational Studies -- 3.1.5 Environmental Background Studies -- 3.1.6 Transgenerational Studies -- 3.1.7 Gene and Radiation Interaction: The Women's Environmental Cancer and Radiation Epidemiology Study -- 3.1.8 Retinoblastoma -- 3.2 Epidemiologic Studies Focused on Noncancer Outcomes -- 4. Bioindicators from Radiation Biology Studies -- 4.1 DNA Damage and Repair -- 4.2 Signaling of DNA Damage at Low Doses -- 4.3 Chromosome Alterations -- 4.4 Mutations -- 4.5 Radiation-Induced Genomic Instability -- 4.6 Modulators of Response -- 4.6.1 Adaptive Responses -- 4.6.2 Bystander Effects -- 4.6.3 Genetic Susceptibility and Interactions with Radiation -- 4.6.4 Interactions with Environmental and Lifestyle Factors -- 5. Closing the Gaps Towards an Integrated Approach -- 5.1 Targeted Research to Identify Adverse Outcome Pathways and Bioindicators of Response -- 5.2 Biologically Based Modeling -- 5.2.1 Biologically Based Dose-Response Approach -- 5.2.2 Systems Biology -- 5.3 Registries of Medical-Imaging Exposures Linked to Outcomes and Biological Materials -- 5.4 Facilities and Interdisciplinary Training -- 5.4.1 Facilities

5.4.2 Interdisciplinary Training -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Glossary -- References -- Scientific Committee Members -- NCRP Commentaries

ISBN

9780983545071

Language

English

Material Type

Ebook

Audience

Professional

Location

Internet

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