Product Description
A user friendly, single point of reference for healthcare professionals in the safe and effective administration of injectable medicines. Injectable Drugs Guide is 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.
Product Data
- ISBN:
- 9780853697879
- Author:
- Alistair Gray, Jane Wright, Vincent Goodey and Lynn Bruce
- Publisher:
- Pharmaceutical Press
- Pub Date:
- February 2011
- Format:
- Paperback
- Extent:
- 928 pages
- Dimensions:
- 130 mm x 215 mm
- Approx Wt:
- 1.0 kg
- HS Code:
- 490199
- 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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