Nursing I.V. Drug Handbook

or virtually every I.V. drug, readers find the trade name, pharmacologic and therapeutic classes, pH, indications and dosages, preparation and storage, incompatibilities, administration guidelines, contraindications and cautions, adverse reactions, interactions, effects on diagnostic tests, pharmacokinetics, mechanism of action, and special considerations. Content includes I.V. drug administration; peripheral I.V. therapy; providing central venous therapy; parenteral nutrition, blood transfusions, and chemotherapy; generic I.V. drugs, solutions, and blood products in alphabetical order; appendices on estimating surface area in children and adults, major electrolyte components for I.V. solutions, preventing and treating extravasation, safe handling of chemotherapy, conscious sedation protocols, an index and mor