Nursing I.V. Drug Handbook

This latest edition includes overdose information, monitoring guidelines, patient-teaching tips, and adverse reactions classified five ways. Contents also include 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 for quick access. 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 on diagnostic tests, and special considerations. Also covered are 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.