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This text provides all the information that doctors, midwives and nurses need to know about the prescribing of drugs, and about their safe and accurate adminstration. Information on placental transfer, teratogenicity, and toxicity is provided for each listed drug, as is information on the extent to which the drug appears in breast milk (and the extent to which this matters). A whole page monograph is provided for all the commonly used drugs, blood products and vaccines and for a range of "orphan" drugs not mentioned in other standard formularies. Key references to the early 21st-century literature are provided for each drug.
Contents:Drug prescribing and drug administration; terms, symbols, abbreviations and units; drug storage; neonatal drug administration; drugs and the body; drugs and the law; the care and use of intravascular lines; minimizing IV infusion and drug hazards; adverse reactions and overtreatment; writing a hospital prescription; body weight and surface area; further reading; making choices; managing suspected infection; clots and emboli; managing seizures; circulatory control; pain relief; renal failure; drug monographs; maternal monographs and its effect on the baby.
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