Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4441-7664-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 322 Seiten, Format (B × H): 108 mm x 145 mm, Gewicht: 251 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Anthony F. T.

Brown, Anthony FT

Nicholson, Timothy R. J.

Nicholson, Timothy

Singer, Donald R. J.

Singer, Donald RJ

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete AINS Notfallmedizin & Unfallmedizin (inkl. Notdienste)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Anthony F T Brown MB ChB (Bristol), FRCP, FRCS (Edin), FACEM, FCEM, Professor, Discipline of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Timothy RJ Nicholson MBBS, BSc, MSc, MRCPsych, Honorary Specialist Registrar, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UKDonald RJ Singer BMedBiol, MD, FRCP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, UK