CD ROMs for Pharmaceutical use

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CD ROMs for Pharmaceutical use

• Patrick Bongo BSc (Hons), MSc, PGCE, MBCS

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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.

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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,
  contra-
• indications, side-effects, dosage and relative
  costs.
• The BNF could be accessed as a paper based manual
• or online or as a CD-ROM.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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BNF DEMONSTRATION
If you enter the search criteria ampicillin
and then you click on the Search icon
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You now have a list of drugs associated with
Ampicillin
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If you had selected Ampicillin from the previous
menu
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If you click on Interactions
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Output if you had clicked on Interactions
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Martindale Demonstration
If for example you write Ibuprofen and click on
the Search icon.
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If you had selected Ibuprofen from the previous
selection.
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You then have information on adverse effects,
treatment and precautions
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If you click on Interactions
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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/cur
  rent/
• Rowe, Raymond et al (2006). Pharmaceutical
  Excipients. Online.
• Available at http//www.medicinescomplete.com/mc/
  excipients/current/