Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals/1995 (Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses & Allied Health Professionals)

Updated, this handbook presents over 1700 new drug facts, including 12 new drugs, 426 additional dosages, 239 drug/lab interactions, and 92 side effects. The easy-to-use format provides generic name, trade name(s), pH, usual dosage, paediatric dose, infant/neonatal dose, dose adjustments, dilution, storage, rate of administration, actions, indications and uses, precautions - subdivided into monitor, patient education, maternal/child and the elderly, contraindications, drug/lab interations, incompatibilities, side effects and antidote. It includes a new appendix on patient information. The book is intended for practicing and student nurses.