Anthony FT Brown (Author), Timothy Nicholson (Author), Donald RJ Singer (Author)
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.
Product Details
- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (September 12, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1444176641
- ISBN-13: 978-1444176643
- ISBN-13: 9781444176643
- eText ISBN: 9781444176650
- eText ISBN: 9781466592841
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