The latest edition of this drug reference provides detailed information on more than 2000 drugs used in the care of surgical or critically ill patients, including 200 of the most commonly prescribed drugs.

The text is presented in an easy-to-use, dictionary-style format with 546 monographs alphabetically organized by both brand and generic drug name. Each drug monograph presents multiple fields of information: anesthesia and critical care concerns, uses for the drug, mechanisms of action, pharmacodynamics/pharmacokinetics, dosage, monitoring parameters, interactions with anesthetic drugs (when applicable), and medicine safety issues.

Key appendix updates include new algorithms for adult advanced cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support, a cytochrome P450 enzymes table, and the most current information on sedative agents, opioids, heart failure (systolic), and prevention of wound infection and sepsis in surgical patients.

By Andrew J. Donnelly, Pharm.D., MBA; Verna L. Baughman, MD; Jeffrey P. Gonzales, Pharm.D., BCPS; Julie Golembiewski, Pharm.D.; and Elizabeth A. Tomsik, Pharm.D., BCPS
ISBN-13: 978-1591951445; 1,891 pages; 2007; softbound

ISBN-10: 978-1591951445