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Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine

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9781444176643
 

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.
More Information
Author Anthony FT Brown, Timothy Nicholson, Donald RJ Singer
Table Of Content

Common/useful drugs
Drug selection
Analgesia in the ED
Antiemetics in the ED
Local anaesthesia
Procedural sedation and analgesia
Rapid sequence induction
Drug infusion guideline
How to prescribe
Intravenous fluids
Insulin
Anticoagulants
Steroids
Sedation in the ED
Controlled drugs
Medical emergencies
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
Anaphylaxis
Acute coronary syndrome (ACS)
Acute LVF
Hypertension and accelerated hypertension
Atrial fibrillation
Acute severe asthma
Pneumonia
COPD exacerbation
Pulmonary embolism
Acute upper GI haemorrhage
Hypoglycaemia
DKA
HHS (HONK)
Addisonian crisis
Myxoedema coma/crisis
Thyrotoxic crisis/thyroid storm
Meningitis
Seizures
TIA and stroke
Severe sepsis or septic shock
Febrile neutropenia
Urinary tract infections
GI infections
TB pneumonia
Malaria
Electrolyte disturbances
Alcohol withdrawal
Acute poisoning
Surgical emergencies
Acute abdomen
Orthopaedic infections
ENT infections
Eye infections
Reference information
Glasgow coma scale
Mental state examination
Acid-base nomogram
Useful formulae
Common laboratory reference values
Index

Publish Date 19 Sep 2013
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