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About Therapeutic Guidelines
Getting to know your drugs
Analgesic
Antibiotic
Cardiovascular
    Contributors
    Preface
    Getting to know your cardiovascular drugs
    Cardiovascular disease risk reduction
    Assessment and treatment of smoking
    Dyslipidaemia
    Hypertension
       General information
       Nonpharmacological management
       Pharmacological management
          Primary hypertension
             Introduction
             Guidelines for selecting initial drug treatment of hypertension (Table 3.8)
             Oral dosages of some of the common drugs used in hypertension (Table 3.9)
             Initial therapy
                Diuretics
                Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors
                Angiotensin II receptor blockers
                Calcium channel blockers
                Beta blockers
             When monotherapy is ineffective
             Alternative therapies for patients resistant to or intolerant of the above
          Secondary hypertension
          Urgent reduction of blood pressure
          Interruption of antihypertensive therapy
    Coronary ischaemic syndromes
    Heart failure
    Arrhythmias
    Venous thromboembolism
    Peripheral arterial disease
    Noncardiac surgery in patients with cardiovascular disease
    Syncope
    Hypertension and other cardiovascular disease in pregnancy
    Pulmonary hypertension
    Useful sources of information (Appendix 3.1)
    List of tables, boxes and figure
    Key references
Dermatology
Emergency Medicine
Endocrinology
Gastrointestinal
Fatigue: diagnostic approach in primary care
Neurology
Oral and Dental
Palliative Care
Psychotropic
Respiratory
Rheumatology
Ulcer and wound management
Developmental Disability
Drug use in pregnancy and breastfeeding