Gahart's 2021 Intravenous Medications - E-Book (ePub)

The essential information you need to safely administer more than 400 intravenous drugs! For over 45 years, Gahart's 2021 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals has been a trusted resource for comprehensive drug coverage, unparalleled accuracy, and an intuitive quick-access format. In addition to updated drug interactions, precautions, alerts, and patient teaching instructions for all existing IV drugs, this new 37th edition includes more than a dozen new monographs of the most recent IV drugs to be approved by the FDA. Administering intravenous drugs is a critical task - inaccurate or out-of-date information is not an option. Known as the #1 IV drug handbook on the market, Gahart's annual publication, with its history of impeccable accuracy, gives you the extra confidence and guidance you need to safely and effectively treat patients.

• Monographs on more than 400 IV drugs offers an impressive breadth of coverage that goes well beyond any comparable drug reference.
• Updated annual publication prevents you from referencing outdated information.
• Additional drug monographs are housed on the companion Evolve website.
• A 45-year history of impeccable accuracy reinforces the importance of safe IV drug administration.
• The perfect depth of information equips you with everything that is needed by today's clinicians for safe administration of IV drugs - nothing more, nothing less.
• Proven, clinically optimized format keeps all dosage information for each drug on either a single page or a two-page spread to prevent hand contamination by having to turn a page.
• Highlighted Black Box Warnings and relevant content make locating critical information fast and easy.
• Special circumstances in blue-screened text call attention to important circumstances that may not warrant Black Box Warnings.
• Life stage dosage variances are highlighted for geriatric, pediatric, infant, and neonatal patients.
• Dilution and dosage charts within monographs provide quick access to essential clinical information.
• Convenient, alphabetical format organizes all drug monographs by generic name, allowing you to find any drug in seconds.

• NEW! Drug monographs for 19 newly approved drugs by the FDA provides you with the most current drug information.
• Updates on drug interactions, precautions, alerts, and more have been made throughout the guide to reflect all changes to existing medications.