2002 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals: A Handbook for Nurses and Allied Medical Professionals - Tapa blanda

Noted for its consistency, comprehensiveness, and accuracy, this complete, IV drug reference provides more than 350 drug monographs presented in a clinically useful format. The 2002 edition of this best-selling handbook includes 11 new monographs for FDA-approved IV drugs and hundreds of new drug facts new dosage adjustments, indications, interactions, side effects, precautions, and additional disease-specific dosages. It also provides the latest IV drug dilution and dosage charts, and incorporates a special "Alert" icon when additional material must be reviewed before proceeding.An impressive, new Intravenous Medications website supports the book with updated information on less frequently used diagnostic agents and provides links to additional information about drugs recently withdrawn from the market, new drug safety information, and other news related to intravenous therapy.

This IV drug reference includes more than 350 drug monographs presented in a clinical format. The 2002 edition is updated with hundreds of new drug facts and approximately 10 to 15 new monographs for FDA-approved IV drugs. Each monograph heading includes the drug's generic name, trade name(s), drug category, and pH. Monograph sections include: usual dose; pediatric dose; infant and/or neonatal dose; dose adjustments; dilution, including storage; incompatibilities; rate of administration; actions; indications and uses; contraindications; precautions, including monitor, patient education, maternal/child, and elderly; drug/lab interactions; side effects, including major and minor; and antidote. All drugs are indexed by generic and common trade names, as well as by pharmacologic action. Appendixes offer useful information on handling cytotoxic drugs, alternate choices for infrequently used drugs, FDA pregnancy categories, information for patients receiving immunosuppressive agents, general dilution charts, and National Cancer Institute common toxicity grading criteria.