Transcript CD ROMs for Pharmaceutical use

CD ROMs for
Pharmaceutical use
Patrick Bongo BSc (Hons), MSc, PGCE, MBCS
INTRODUCTION
Pharmacy CD-ROMs are used as electronic
reference by Pharmacists, Pharmacy
Technicians, Doctors, Nurses and
Toxicologists.
They could be used instead of their
respective paper based manuals, depending
on the technology available, the time and
place they need to be accessed.
Commonly used CD-ROMs
BNF (British National Formulary)
Contains advice of clinical experts and
provides up-to-date guidance on
prescribing, dispensing and administering
Medicines.
It details medicines prescribed in the UK, with
special reference to their uses, cautions, contraindications, side-effects, dosage and relative costs.
The BNF could be accessed as a paper based manual
or online or as a CD-ROM.
BNFC (BNF for Children)
The BNFC provides essential practical
information to all healthcare professionals
involved in the prescribing, dispensing,
monitoring, and administration of medicines
to children.
It includes authoritative advice on licensed as well
as unlicensed and “off-label” use of medicines for
children from birth up to the age of 18 years .
Like the BNF you can access it via a paper based
manual or online or as a CD-ROM.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
• Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines
• Over 6,300 drug monographs
• 149,000 preparations
• 40,700 references
• 14,700 manufacturers
• Synopses of treatments for more than 660 diseases
• Enables identification of medicines, the local
equivalent and the manufacturer
• Includes herbals, diagnostic agents,
radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients,
toxins, and poisons as well as drugs and medicines
• Based on published information and extensively
referenced
Pharmaceutical Excipients
This is a comprehensive guide to the uses,
properties and safety of pharmaceutical
excipients and is an essential reference for
those involved in the development,
production, control and regulation of
pharmaceutical preparations.
Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
This is intended for use primarily by
scientists faced with identifying and
quantifying drugs and poisons in body fluids,
tissue samples and pharmaceutical and
industrial products.
Dietary Supplements
The Dietary Supplements provides a
comprehensive, evidence-based guide to
the safety and efficacy of the most
commonly used vitamins, minerals and
dietary supplements.
Stockley's Drug Interactions
provides the healthcare professional with
quick and easy access to clinically relevant,
evaluated, and evidence-based information
on interactions between therapeutic drugs,
proprietary medicines, herbal medicines,
foods, drinks, pesticides and drugs of abuse.
BNF DEMONSTRATION
If you enter the search criteria “ampicillin” and then you click on the Search icon
You now have a list of drugs associated with Ampicillin
If you had selected Ampicillin from the previous menu
If you click on Interactions
Output if you had clicked on Interactions
Martindale Demonstration
If for example you write “Ibuprofen” and click on the Search icon.
If you had selected Ibuprofen from the previous selection.
You then have information on adverse effects, treatment and precautions
If you click on Interactions
References
British Medical Association et al (2006). BNF
for Children (BNFC) [Online]. Available at:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnfc/current
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great
Britain (2006). BNF [Online]. Available:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/bnf/current/
Moffat, Anthony et al (2006). The definitive source
of analytical data for drugs and poisons. [Online].
Available at:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/clarke/current/
Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (2006).
Martindale: The complete drug reference. [Online]. Available at:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/martindale/current/
Rowe, Raymond et al (2006). Pharmaceutical Excipients. [Online].
Available at: http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/excipients/current/
Baxter, Karen et al (2006). Stockley's Drug Interactions. [Online]. Available at:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/stockley/current/
Mason, Pamela (2006). Dietary Supplements. [Online]. Available at:
http://www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/diet/current/