Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine

By - POC

Floor - Floor 2

Published - CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2014

ISBN 10 - 1444176641

ISBN 13 - 9781444176643

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Drugs--Prescribing

Shelf No - 6

Call Number - 615.4 POC

Physical Description - xxix, 320 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 15 cm

Book Information

Drug prescribing errors are a common cause of hospital admission, and adverse reactions can have devastating effects, some even fatal. Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must have" information on a vast range of drugs that staff from junior doctors to emergency nurses, nurse prescribers, paramedics and other pre-hospital providers may encounter in the emergency setting. Key features: • A–Z list of over 500 of the most commonly prescribed drugs with each entry containing the key prescribing information • Safety issues, warnings, drug errors and adverse effects • Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and resuscitation guidelines • Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions • Concise management summaries for common medical and surgical emergencies • Essential advice for pain relief—from acute pain management to procedural sedation • Clinically useful reminders of key facts from basic pharmacology to acute poisoning syndromes Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine supplies all your information needs concerning commonly prescribed drugs at a glance, enabling on-the-spot decision-making to provide the highest standard of care whilst mitigating prescribing errors.

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