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Lippincott Intravenous Drug Handbook 1998 Edition by Springhouse Publishing
This work has been updated to include overdose information, monitoring guidelines, patient-teaching tips and adverse reactions classified in five ways. Each entry includes trade names, controlled substance schedule (if applicable) and pregnancy risk categories. Table of contents :- Overdose information, monitoring guidelines, patient-teaching tips, and adverse reactions classified five ways; how to administer peripheral and central I.V. therapy, parenteral nutrition, blood transfusions, and chemotherapy; all major I.V. drugs, solutions, and blood products are listed in alphabetical order; each entry includes trade names, controlled substance schedule (if applicable), pregnancy risk category, pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, indications and dosages, preparation, storage, administration, incompatibility with other drugs and solutions, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions, interactions, effects o diagnostic tests, and special considerations; managing anaphylaxis, estimating body surface area, identifying and treating toxic drug reactions, major electrolyte components of I.V. solutions, antidotes for vesicant extravasation, preventing and treating extravasation, normal laboratory test values and drip rates for common I.V. drugs.