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Injectable Drugs Pocket Guide

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Injectable Drugs Pocket Guide

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ISBN: 9780853697879
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Date Published: Feb 2011
Format: Paperback

The administration of drugs by injection is an essential activity that is performed daily in many healthcare settings. This guide provides a user friendly, single point of reference for healthcare professionals in the safe and effective administration of injectable medicines. Injectable Drugs Guide consists of an A-Z of approximately 300 injectable drugs in monograph format, each covering the following topics:
•pre-treatment checks
•dosing regimens
•preparation and administration
•compatibility and stability information
•monitoring requirements during treatment
•side effects, interactions and pharmacokinetic information.

The Injectable Drugs Guide is designed to support the NPSA risk assessment process and each drug has a risk rating.
The book provides a holistic approach to injectable medicines to meet the needs of the many disciplines involved in the clinical use of injectables and also those providing advice about injectable drug use.

Contents:
Preface
How to use the Injectable Drugs Guide monographs
Injectable Drugs Guide on Medicines Complete
Feedback
About the authors
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Monographs A - Z
Appendix 1. The basics of injectable therapy
Appendix 2. Good management principles
Appendix 3. Usual responsibilities of individual practitioners
Appendix 4. Advantages and disadvantages to parenteral therapy
Appendix 5. Injection techniques and routes
Appendix 6. Extravasation
Appendix 7. Intravascular devices
Appendix 8. Infusion devices
Appendix 9. Syringe drivers
Appendix 10. Ideal body weight, dosing in patients with renal or hepatic impairment
Appendix 11. Risk ratings
Index of cross-referenced terms

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