Product Description: This book provides succinct reviews of 500 of the most commonly prescribed drugs. Each entry covers key prescribing information and provides information on safety issues, warnings, drug errors, and adverse effects. The book supplies practical guidance on drug selection and includes prescribing protocols and guidelines, information for complicated prescriptions, and concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies...read more

Product Description: Pocket Prescriber 2013 is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must-have" information that junior doctors, nurse prescribers, and medical students need at their fingertips. Key features: A–Z list of the 500 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 guidelines Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions Concise management summaries for the common medical emergencies The new European Resuscitation Council algorithms Clinically useful reminders of basic pharmacology (e...read more

Product Description: Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of more than 1,000 of the most commonly prescribed drugs including approximately 80 drugs new to the market since the sixth edition the book provides generic name (with pronunciation), trade name(s), therapeutic class, general FDA approved therapeutic use(s), and commercially available dosage forms/strengths...read more

Product Description: Understanding how drugs work is made simple in this easy to use pocket-sized guide. Drugs in common use are described under each body system and will form an aid to your confident administration of drugs to fit your patients' needs...read more

Product Description: This pocket reference guide is a must for all medical students and junior doctors preparing for exams in pharmacology or needing a rapid reminder during a clinical attachment. In light of the growing pressures on those who prescribe drugs to patients, increasing emphasis has been placed on the importance of pharmacology in the undergraduate medical curriculum...read more

Product Description: The Pharmacy Technician's Reference Guide is the only pocket guide that gives pharmacy technicians a tool to carry with them through school and into the workforce. It can be used in hospitals and retail settings as a supplementary resource, and serves as a quick reference for the National Certification or as a review for current pharmacy technicians...read more

Product Description: The UCL Hospitals Injectable Medicines Administration Guide, second edition is a popular and accessible guide covering many important aspects of administrating medicines by injection. It is an essential resource for nurses and other health care professionals which provides key information and advice needed for the safe and effective administration of many injectable medicines...read more

Product Description: Physician's Drug Handbook features alphabetically organized monographs on over 900 generic and 2,000 trade name drugs. Each entry includes generic name, U.S. and Canadian trade names, pharmacologic class, therapeutic class, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (as needed), available forms, indications and dosages, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, route-onset-peak-duration tables, contraindications and cautions, interactions, adverse reactions, effects on lab test results, overdose and treatment, special considerations, and patient education...read more

Product Description: Packed with vital, practical facts -- Health Professionals Rely on Porter’s Pocket Guides for Fast, Accurate Clinical Information! Porter’s Pocket Guide to Emergency & Critical Care is a quick reference for emergency and critical care nurses and other healthcare professionals containing all of the key clinical information they need at their fingertips...read more

The overall structure of this handbook is similar to that of the British National Formulary, with monographs arranged broadly by therapeutic category. When a drug has several different uses, these are brought together in a single monograph; this will allow the reader to appreciate in full range of actions, whether therapeutic or adverse. The safe and effective use of medicines requires a sound knowledge of pharmacology. When a drug illustrates a particular pharmacological principle, this is expanded on in the teaching point section at the end of the monograph. As readers use the book, they will increase their basic knowledge in this practical way.

This pocket guide provides a step-by-step approach to the mathematics and knowledge needed for the accurate calculation of drug doses. This edition contains expanded coverage of intravenous medication and insulin administration. Also included are end-of-chapter practice problems and new chapters covering paediatric and geriatric dose calculation. Other features new to this edition include a pre-assessment test; an expanded chapter on intravenous drug therapies; a new appendix identifying components of a drug label; and an inside-cover display of frequently-used formulas.

Product Description: Now in its thoroughly updated second edition, The Wills Eye Drug Guide is the most complete, convenient reference currently published on diagnostic and therapeutic ophthalmic medications. It fits into a pocket, includes more drugs than the ophthalmic physicians' desk reference, and provides all the facts the prescribing physician needs on dosages, mechanisms of action, side effects, and contraindications...read more

Product Description: This take-anywhere guide offers readers fundamental and advanced administration methods, clarifying photos and illustrations, best practices, patient teaching, equipment close-ups, and alerts highlighted to stand out. Contents include essential concepts, lifespan considerations, nursing process, legal and ethical concerns, medication orders and errors, measurement systems and dosage calculations, documentation, chemotherapy, parenteral nutrition, blood and blood products, drugs that shouldn't be crushed, dialyzable drugs, antidotes for vesicant extravasation, I...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)