Kee, Joyce LeFever

Clinical calculations : with applications to general and specialty areas / Joyce LeFever Kee and Sally M. Marshall - St. Louis, Missouri : Elsevier Saunders, c2004 - vii, 368 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basic math review -- Systems, conversion, and methods of drug calculation -- Systems used for drug administration -- Conversion within the metric, apothecary, and household systems -- Interpretation of drug labels, drug orders, bar codes, charting, "5 rights," and abbreviations -- Alternative methods for drug administration -- Methods of calculation -- Methods of calculation for individualized drug dosing -- Calculations for oral, injectable, and intravenous drugs -- Oral and enteral preparations with clinical applications -- Injectable preparations with clinical applications -- Intravenous preparations with clinical applications -- Calculations for specialty areas -- Pediatrics -- Critical care -- Pediatric clinical care -- Labor and delivery -- Community -- Post-test: oral preparations, injectables, intravenous, and pediatrics

The only text to cover all four major drug calculation methods.

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RS 57 .K44 2004