Publisher's Synopsis
This brand new combination text and workbook provides instruction in the ASRT required curriculum areas of pharmacology and drug administration procedures with a broad application to all the imaging technologies. It discusses pharmacology and drug administration and the ethical and legal issues involved. It includes chapters on drug nomenclature and classification, pharmacokinetics and biopharmaceutics, pharmacodynamics, classification of contrast agents, drug administration routes, and intravenous drug administration techniques, as well as special chapters on emergency pharmacology with emergency responses to drug reactions and conscious sedation and other relevant pharmacology. This text offers useful instructional features such as objectives, key terms, step-by-step procedures, case studies, exercises, and review questions.