Pediatric Pharmacology and Drug Therapy, An Issue of Pediatric Clinics of North America

Description

Dr. Aranda is an top expert in the area of pharmacology in the pediatric population. His issue has knowledgeable authors presenting clinical reviews on a wide variety of topics, from "hot areas " of drug therapy to drug abuse in children as well as current areas of debate in neonatal drug therapy. Articles are devoted to the following topics: New and Current Drug Therapies For Asthma In Children; Psychopharmacology Of Bipolar Disorders in Children and Adolescents; Designer Drug Abuse in School Children; Dietary Supplements in Children; Anticoagulant Therapies in Children; New Antimicrobials for Gram-Positive Infections in Children; Probiotics in Newborns And Children; Anticonvulsant Therapies in Newborns and Children; Immunomodulator Drug Therapies in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in Children; Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Newborns and Children; Metformin Use in Pre-Diabetic Children and Adolescents; Problems in Drug Dosing of Obese Children; Inhaled Drugs and Systemic Steroids for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia; Antifungal Drugs in Newborns and Children; Antiviral Drugs In Newborns and Children; and Development of Drug Therapies for Newborns and Children. Readers will come away with the latest clinical information to help inform them when diagnosing and prescribing for children.

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Table of Contents

Pediatric Clinics of North America

Pediatric Pharmacology and Drug Therapy

Preface: Evolution of Pharmacotherapeutics and Pharmacotoxidromes in Newborns and Children: Progress and Challenges

Development of Drug Therapies for Newborns and Children: The Scientific and Regulatory Imperatives

Approaching Current and New Drug Therapies for Pediatric Asthma

Psychopharmacology of Bipolar Disorders in Children and Adolescents

New Psychoactive Substances in Pediatric Patients

Dietary Supplements in Children

Anticoagulation Therapies in Children

Probiotics in Newborns and Children

Drug Treatment of Seizures and Epilepsy in Newborns and Children

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: History and Future Directions

Non-steroidal Anti-inflammatory Drugs in Newborns and Infants

Metformin Use in Children and Adolescents with Prediabetes

Inhaled Drugs and Systemic Corticosteroids for Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

New Antimicrobial Agents for the Treatment of Staphylococcal Infections in Children

Antifungal Drugs in Newborns and Children

Antiviral Drugs in Newborns and Children

Drug Dosing in Obese Children: Challenges and Evidence-Based Strategies

Author Information

By Jacob V. Aranda, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FAAP, The Children's Hospital and Downstate, Brooklyn, NY