Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine

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 j [...]
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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.