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.

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