• ISBN13: 9781119404545
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Veterinary
• Publisher: Wiley
• Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac
• Publication Date: January 1, 2019
• Pages: 600
• Original Price: USD 157.95
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 1202 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Veterinary Medicine / Small Animal

From the Back Cover

Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing enables pharmacists and pharmacy students to expand the breadth of their pharmacological knowledge to include common veterinary species. The book offers a practical yet complete resource for dispensing drugs for canine and feline patients, with additional chapters on horses, birds, reptiles, small mammals, and food animals. Edited by a globally recognized expert in veterinary pharmacology, and including chapters written by veterinarians with expertise in pharmacotherapy and pharmacists with expertise in veterinary medicine, this book is designed to help pharmacists enhance the quality of veterinary patient care.

This book is the first to combine the expertise of both veterinarians and pharmacists to enable pharmacists to apply their knowledge and skills to assure optimal therapeutic outcomes for patients of all species. Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing:

• Puts the information needed to safely dispense prescription and OTC drugs for veterinary patients at the pharmacists' fingertips
• Focuses on crucial details of canine and feline pharmacotherapeutics
• Helps pharmacists avoid adverse drug reactions including pharmacogenomic and breed-related drug sensitivities
• Offers an authoritative resource written by leading veterinary pharmacy experts designed to integrate pharmacists into the veterinary healthcare team
• Includes crucial regulatory information unique to veterinary drug dispensing and compounding

Pharmacotherapeutics for Veterinary Dispensing is an essential reference for all pharmacists and pharmacy students that might find themselves dispensing drugs to veterinary patients, as well as for veterinarians and others involved with dispensing veterinary drugs.

The Editor

Katrina L. Mealey, BS (Pharm), DVM, PhD, DACVIM, DACVCP, and NAI Fellow, is a Professor and Endowed Chair at Washington State University and is the Founding Director of the Program in Individualized Medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine in Pullman, WA, USA.