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Elsevier’s 2024 Intravenous Medications

A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals

  • 40th Edition - April 6, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Shelly Rainforth Collins
  • Language: English

Find the essential information you need to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs! For nearly 50 years, Elsevier’s Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and H… Read more

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Find the essential information you need to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs! For nearly 50 years, Elsevier’s Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals has been a trusted resource for complete, accurate drug information in a concise, quick-access format. New to the 2024 edition are 8 monographs of the most recent IV drugs to be approved by the FDA, in addition to updated drug uses, interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions for all current IV drugs. Known as the #1 IV drug handbook on the market, this annual publication is ideal for use in critical care areas, at the nursing station, in the office, and in public health and home care settings.

Key features

    • Detailed monographs on more than 400 IV drugs provide an impressive breadth of coverage that goes well beyond any comparable drug reference
    • Individual monographs include the drug name, phonetic pronunciation, usual dose, dilution, compatibility, rate of administration, actions, indications and uses, contraindications, precautions, interactions, side effects, antidote, and more
    • Additional drug monographs are provided on the Evolve website
    • Highlighted Black Box Warnings make it easy to locate information on medications with serious safety risks
    • Blue-screened text calls attention to special circumstances not covered by Black Box Warnings
    • Dosage and dilution charts within monographs provide quick summaries of essential clinical information
    • Life-stage dosage variances are highlighted for geriatric, pediatric, infant, and neonatal patients
    • Convenient, A-to-Z format organizes all drug monographs by generic name, allowing you to find any drug in seconds
    • Spiral binding allows the book to lie flat, leaving your hands free to perform other tasks

    Table of contents

    Evolve website information
    General Dilution Charts
    How to Use This Book
    Preface
    Format and Content of Intravenous Medications
    Key to Abbreviations
    Important IV Therapy Facts
    Resources
    Preparation and Administration of Injectable Drugs
    IV Drugs
    Appendix A: Recommendations for the Safe Use and Handling of Cytotoxic Drugs
    Appendix B: FDA Pregnancy Categories
    Appendix C: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE)
    Appendix D: Information for Patients Receiving Immunosuppressive Agents
    Appendix E: Recently Approved Drugs
    Index

    Review quotes

    Review of the previous edition:
    “…a great resource to any health professional working with IV medications…. The online format adds value as a more comprehensive resource, but the on-hand convenience of the print version is undeniably better for quick reference…. [A] very comprehensive book, written and reviewed by experts in the field of pharmacy and nursing…. The authors have done a wonderful job covering everything.” — ©Doody’s Review Service, 2023, Zina T. Saidi, PharmD (Jeanes Hospital)

    Product details

    • Edition: 40
    • Latest edition
    • Published: May 2, 2023
    • Language: English

    About the author

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    Shelly Rainforth Collins

    Shelly Collins, PharmD, has decades of clinical experience in which she has been responsible for overseeing system-wide pharmaceutical safety.
    Affiliations and expertise
    President, Drug Information Consultants, Chesapeake, Virginia, USA