Clinical Manual of Psychopharmacology in the Medically Ill

The use of psychoactive drugs in the medically ill is an important, complex, and often perplexing field. This reference book is correspondingly not only important but also superb in providing much needed guidance by describing both general principles and summarizing the relevant literature. This useful manual starts with basic pharmacology and routes of administration, then walks the reader though the effects, adverse-effects and interactions of these drugs in patients with disease in each bodily system. The combination of clinical wisdom and comprehensive reviews of the literature make this book indispensable not only to consultation-liaison psychiatrists but also to any physician interested in the effects on brain and behaviour of the drugs they routinely use.