ISBN:
9780443121005
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-09-2024
Page Count:
1344
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$46.99
Elsevier’s 2025 Intravenous Medications - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 41st Edition
by Shelly Rainforth Collins, PharmD, BCGP
Elsevier eBook on VitalSource
ISBN:
9780443121005
Copyright:
2025
Publication Date:
09-09-2024
Page Count:
1344
Imprint:
Elsevier
List Price:
$46.99
Most review copies are eBooks – how fast!
A review copy request is most likely to be fulfilled as an eBook on VitalSource rather than a print product, unless no eBook is available. eBooks become available in as little as a few hours. Print products will take between 7 and 10 days to arrive. To request a print copy, please contact us through the Evolve Support Center for further assistance or contact your Education Solutions Consultant.
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Here’s the essential information your students 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 data in a concise, quick-access format. New to the 2025 edition are monographs of 16 IV drugs recently 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 provides students with the right amount of information needed for safe drug administration — nothing more and nothing less.
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- NEW! Drug monographs for 16 newly approved drugs by the FDA include the most current information.
- NEW! Updates on drug uses, interactions, precautions, alerts, and more are included throughout the guide to reflect changes to existing medications.
- NEW! Best practices guidelines for the preparation and administration of injectable drugs are provided from the National Coalition for IV Push Safety.
- 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 students to find any drug in seconds.
- Spiral binding allows the book to lie flat, leaving the practitioner’s hands free to perform other tasks.
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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
Solution Compatibility Chart
Selected Agents Not Included in the Book
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