Critical Care Intravenous Infusion Drug Handbook
This practical, easy-to-use handbook is the perfect source for fast, accurate dosing and administration guidance. It provides a description of each intravenous infusion drug, complete with new and updated drug facts such as common uses, solution preparation, doses, adverse reactions, warnings, incompatibilities, compatibilities, and nursing considerations.
Search in google:
This practical reference was developed to meet the needs of critical care and emergency nurses, physicians, and pharmacists in administering complex drugs given by IV infusion. Presented in an easy-to-use handbook format, it contains information on how to dose and administer complex and commonly used critical care drugs. Each drug is listed with information about what its most common uses are, how to prepare the drug infusion for patient administration, the most common dosages, the most common warnings and adverse reactions, compatibility with other drug infusions, and general nursing considerations. One of its most unique features is the inclusion of calculation factors. Dosing charts allow the healthcare professional to quickly determine the appropriate dose in a matter of seconds.• Drip Rate Calculation Charts and Dosing Charts allow the user to quickly see how to mix and prepare drugs that are usually needed by patients on an immediate, urgent basis. • Covers 44 of the most common intravenous infusion critical care drugs. • Calculation factors for each drug are unique, simplifying an otherwise complicated process and substantially reducing the chance of medication errors. • Includes Nursing Considerations for each drug. • This reference is not only useful for critical care nurses, but also general medicine or general surgical nurses, hospital pharmacists, physicians, cardiologists, anesthesiologists, and emergency room physicians. • Blank pages in the back of the book allow readers to take notes for quick reference.• New and updated drug facts, including uses, solution preparation, doses, adverse reactions, warnings, incompatibilities, compatibilities, and nursing considerations • Complete coverage of the following NEW drugs: Argatroban (Acova), Bivalirudin (Angiomax), Drotrecogin Alfa (Xigris), Infliximab (Remicade), Nesiritide (Natrecor), and Pantoprazole (Protonix) • Includes a new quick reference drug compatibility chart for most of the critical care drugs • New coverage of antibiotic infusion rates • Updated drug dosing charts • Updated Drug Calculation Formula section
Sources Drug Calculation Formulae Section I: ACLS Guidelines for Adult Emergency Cardiac Care Algorithms Pulseless Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)/Ventricular Fibrillation (VF) Asystole Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA) Pulseless Electrical Activity (PEA): Clinical Signs and Treatment Symptomatic Bradycardia Narrow QRS Tachycardia Atrial Fibrillation/Atrial Flutter Algorithm Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) Syndrome Algorithm Sustained Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia Wide QRS Tachycardia of Unknown Origin Initial Assessment and General Treatment of the Patient with an Acute Coronary Syndrome Management of ST-Segment Elevation MI Management of Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Segment Elevation MI Management of Patient with a Suspected Acute Coronary Syndrome and Nondiagnostic or Normal ECG Management of Acute Pulmonary Edema Management of Hypotension/Shock: Suspected Pump Problem Management of Hypotension/Shock: Suspected Volume Problem Management of Hypotension/Shock: Suspected Rate Problem Section II: Critical Care Intravenous Infusion Drugs - Quick Mixing Guide Section III: Intravenous Infusion Drugs ABCIXIMAB (Reopro ) ALTEPLASE (Activase ) AMINOPHYLLINE (Theophylline ) AMIODARONE (Cordarone ) AMRINONE (Inocor ) ATRACURIUM (Tracrium ) CISATRACURIUM (Nimbex ) DEXMEDETOMIDINE (Precedex ) DILTIAZEM (Cardziem ) DOBUTAMINE (Dobutrex ) DOPAMINE (Intropin ) EPINEPHRINE (Adrenalin ) INJECTION EPINEPHRINE (Adrenalin ) INJECTION AND ISOPROTERENOL (Isuprel ) INJECTION AND CALCIUM CHLORIDE INJECTION EPITIFIBATIDE (Integrilin ) ESMOLOL (Brevibloc ) FENOLDOPAM (Corlopam ) HALOPERIDOL (Haldol ) HEPARIN IBUTILIDE (Corvert ) IMMUNE GLOBULIN INTRAVENOUS (Gamimune , Gammargard , Gammar-P , Sandoglobulin ) INSULIN DRIP ISOPROTERENOL (Isuprel ) LABETALOL (Trandate ) LEPIRUDIN (Refludan ) LIDOCAINE (Xylocaine ) LORAZEPAM (Ativan ) MIDAZOLAM (Versed ) MILRINONE (Primacor ) NITROGLYCERIN NITROPRUSSIDE (Nipride ) NOREPINEPHRINE (Levophed ) OCTREOTIDE (Sandostatin ) PHENYLEPHRINE (Neo-Synephrine ) PROCAINAMIDE (Pronestyl ) PROPOFOL (Diprivan ) RETAPLASE (Retavase ) TENECTEPLASE (TNKase ) TIROFIBAN HCL (Aggrastat ) VASOPRESSIN (Pitressin )
