Rau's Respiratory Care Pharmacology

• Clinical scenarios with follow-up SOAP assessment help you assess your comprehension of the material.
• Self-assessment questions offer you thought-provoking opportunities to test your comprehension of key concepts.
• Learning objectives parallel the levels tested by the NBRC^® exams to help you identify important information that goes beyond memorization and recall.
• Key terms with definitions provide easy access to the pharmacologic vocabulary you should embrace.
• Key points boxes in each chapter highlight important concepts in the lesson.
• Glossary of all key terms in the text aids you in understanding the terminology associated with respiratory care pharmacology.
• Appendices on common Units and Systems of Measurement and Acceptable Mixtures provide references to need-to-know information such as abbreviations, conversion charts for temperatures, liquid metric and solids, and a simple drug compatibility chart for drug mixtures.
• Alphabetical drug index provides a direct index to look up information based on drug name.

Respiratory therapy students in two- and four-year programs