A manual of the American Pharmaceutical Association's drug treatment protocols. Each protocol was created by an interdisciplinary panel of prominent pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals and was extensively peer-reviewed. The 44 protocols fall into nine disease categories: cardiovascular diseases; endocrine and metabolic disorders; gastrointestinal disorders; infectious diseases; paediatric disorders; psychiatric disorders; respiratory diseases; self-treatable conditions; and complications related to venous access devices. Each protocol in the book consists of three concise components: a decision tree outlining a step-by-step process that will help you make clinically appropriate, cost-effective drug therapy decisions; explanatory text corresponding to each step that provides justification for the recommendations; and references from the literature to support each recommendation.