Table of Contents

1 Drug Absorption, distribution and elimination 2 Pharmacokinetics 3 Drug action 4 Drug interaction 5 Variability in drug response 6 Intravenous anaesthetic agents 7 Inhalation anaesthetic agents 8 Local anaesthetic agents 9 Drugs that act on the neuromuscular junction 10 Analgesic drugs 11 Drugs used in premedication and antiemetic agents 12 Drugs and the autonomic nervous system 13 Antihypertensive agents - drugs used to induce hypotension 14 Antiarrhythmic and antianginal drugs 15 Anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs and fibrinolytic agents 16 Corticosteroids and hypoglycaemic agents.