Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference
Adiel Brumfield
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PRESENTED AS a two-volume boxed set, this is the world's most comprehensive and reliable guide to drugs and medicines. At 4,688 pages, it is no pocket reference. With more than 6,000 drug monographs, 180,000 preparations and 54,000 reference citations, it has greater international coverage of its subject than any other resource.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a reference book published by Pharmaceutical Press listing some 6,000 drugs and medicines used throughout the world, including details of over 125,000 proprietary preparations. It also includes almost 700 disease treatment reviews.
It was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia. Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides.
Martindale aims to cover drugs and related substances reported to be of clinical interest anywhere in the world. It provides health professionals with a useful source of information to identify medicines, such as confirming the drug and brand name of a medication being taken by a patient arriving from abroad. Alternatively, if the drug is not available, the class of agent can be determined allowing a pharmacist or doctor to determine which other equivalent drugs might be substituted. Monographs include Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) numbers, Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System (ATC) codes and FDA Unique Ingredient Identifier (UNII) codes to help readers refer to other information systems.
Apart from the new cover, the changes in this edition are the usual. New monographs have been added, existing monographs updated, and some sections have been restructured (diabetes mellitus management, porphyria).
The book was first published in 1883 under the title Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia. I still can remember that it was only one volume. But now there are over 6,000 monographs and two volumes. The current Martindale contains information on drugs in clinical use worldwide, as well as selected investigational and veterinary drugs, herbal and complementary medicines, pharmaceutical excipients, vitamins and nutritional agents, vaccines, radiopharmaceuticals, contrast media and diagnostic agents, medicinal gases, drugs of abuse and recreational drugs, toxic substances, disinfectants, and pesticides. Each monograph gives not only physical and chemical information, but also information on therapeutic use and administration, kinetics and the preparations that contain the substance.
The Martindale is a true universal reference and its information wealth is unparalleled. It is not a book one would use every day in clinical pharmacy practice, but a pharmacist can also not live without. Although one can certainly understand why this reference work must be so expensive, the high price will be a barrier especially for colleagues in developing countries. It is in the interest of society in general that every pharmacist can consult this drug reference book when needed. Significantly cheaper access of the on-line version should therefore be considered, for instance for limited time periods or a limited number of searches.
Martindale provides reliable, unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines used throughout the world - no other source has the breadth and depth of coverage. Martindale contains: Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines; Nearly 6,000 drug monographs; Over 160,000 preparations; Over 54,000 reference citations; Over 15,000 manufacturers; Proprietary preparations from 41 countries and regions; Synopses of disease treatments; 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. Martindale is based on published information and extensively referenced.
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The new edition of Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference, provides you with practical, evidence-based, global guidance, allowing you to quickly understand the characteristics of drugs and their clinical uses.
Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference is a one-stop authoritative, invaluable reference work covering all aspects of drugs and medicines, essential on any bookshelf. It provides you with:
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