Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals, 40th edition (PDF Book)
Expert Drug Information
By Shelly Rainforth Collins PharmD
Elsevier’s Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals is an indispensable resource for administering over 400 intravenous drugs safely. For almost half a century, this concise drug reference has been a reliable source for complete and accurate information. The latest edition features updated uses, interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions for all IV drugs. Eight new drug monographs, recently approved by the FDA, are also included in the 2024 edition. Widely considered the number one IV drug handbook, this annual publication is ideal for use in critical care, office, public health, and home care settings.
- Detailed monographs on more than 400 IV drugs provide an impressive breadth of coverage that goes well beyond any comparable drug reference.
- Individual monographs include the drug name, phonetic pronunciation, usual dose, dilution, compatibility, rate of administration, actions, indications and uses, contraindications, precautions, interactions, side effects, antidote, and more.
- Additional drug monographs are provided on the Evolve website.
- Highlighted Black Box Warnings make it easy to locate information on medications with serious safety risks.
- Blue-screened text calls attention to special circumstances not covered by Black Box Warnings.
- Dosage and dilution charts within monographs provide quick summaries of essential clinical information.
- Life-stage dosage variances are highlighted for geriatric, pediatric, infant, and neonatal patients.
- Convenient, A-to-Z format organizes all drug monographs by generic name, allowing you to find any drug in seconds.
- Spiral binding allows the book to lie flat, leaving your hands free to perform other tasks.
Product Details
- Publisher : Elsevier; 40th edition (June 15, 2023)
- Language : English
- Spiral-bound : 1376 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0443118833
- ISBN-13 : 978-0443118838