Publisher's Synopsis
This invaluable handbook provides comprehensive coverage of more than 325 I.V. drugs, blood products, and solutions. Each entry contains generic and trade names, pharmacologic and therapeutic classes, pregnancy risk category, controlled substance schedule (when applicable), pH (when applicable), indications and dosages, administration, preparation and storage, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions classified in five different ways, interactions, effects on lab test results, action, pharmacokinetics, special considerations, and patient teaching. New to this Eighth Edition: monographs on 20 recently approved drugs; newly approved indications; effects of lab test results in every monograph; off-label uses; and a new drug class section.
