Author: Anthony FT Brown, Timothy Nicholson, Donald RJ Singer Full Title: Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (September 14, 2013) Year: 2014 ISBN-13: 9781444176643 (978-1-4441-7664-3) ISBN-10: 1444176641 Pages: 352 Language: English Genre: Emergency Medicine File type: PDF (True) Quality: 10/10 Price: £16.99 Drug prescribing errors are a common cause of hospital admission, and adverse reactions can have devastating effects, some even fatal. Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine is a concise, up-to-date prescribing guide containing all the "must have" information on a vast range of drugs that staff from junior doctors to emergency nurses, nurse prescribers, paramedics and other pre-hospital providers may encounter in the emergency setting. Key features: ✓ A–Z list of over 500 of the most commonly prescribed drugs with each entry containing the key prescribing information ✓ Safety issues, warnings, drug errors and adverse effects ✓ Practical guidance on drug selection, plus protocols and resuscitation guidelines ✓ Advice and reference information for complicated prescriptions ✓ Concise management summaries for common medical and surgical emergencies ✓ Essential advice for pain relief—from acute pain management to procedural sedation ✓ Clinically useful reminders of key facts from basic pharmacology to acute poisoning syndromes Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine supplies all your information needs concerning commonly prescribed drugs at a glance, enabling on-the-spot decision-making to provide the highest standard of care whilst mitigating prescribing errors. Features: ✓ Provides concise summaries of the management of medical emergencies ✓ Discusses acute pain relief, procedural sedation, medicolegal essentials, and emergency room skills ✓ Presents a quick reference alphabetical listing of "need-to-know" drugs ✓ Emphasizes safety issues, warnings, and common errors ✓ Includes advice and reference information on prescribing complex drugs ✓ Covers national and, where possible, international protocols and guidelines concerning drug choice including ERC algorithms ------------- Our members see more. Join us!
