Pocket Prescriber Emergency Medicine

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. Features Provides concise summaries of the management of medical emergencies Discusses acute pain relief, procedural sedation, medicolegal essentials, and emergency room skills Presents a quick reference alphabetical listing of "need-to-know" drugs Emphasizes safety issues, warnings, and common errors Includes advice and reference information on prescribing complex drugs Covers national and, where possible, international protocols and guidelines concerning drug choice including ERC algorithms Features availability on mobile or handheld devices, with a wealth of additional information on www.lifeinthefastlane.com Table of Contents Common/Useful Drugs Drug Selection Antibiotics Hypertension Management Asthma Analgesia Palliative Care and Subcutaneous Pumps Antiemetics Alcohol Withdrawal Antidepresssants How to Prescribe Insulin Anticoagulants Thrombolysis Controlled Drugs Miscellaneous Intravenous Fluids Steroids Sedation/Sleeping Tablets Benzodiazepines Combined Hormonal Contraception Side Effect Profiles Cytochrome P Medical Emergencies Acute Coronary Syndromes (ACS) Acute LVF Accelerated Hypertension Atrial Fibrillation Acute Asthma COPD Exacerbation Pulmonary Embolism Acute Upper GI Haemorrhage Sepsis (Severe Or Septic Shock) Epilepsy DKA HONK Glucose Thyrotoxic Crisis Myxoedema Coma Addisonian Crisis Electrolyte Disturbances Overdoses Reference Information Coma Cognitive Impairment Useful Formulae Common Laboratory Reference Values Anthony F T Brown MB ChB (Bristol), FRCP, FRCS (Edin), FACEM, FCEM, Associate 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, UK Donald RJ Singer BMedBiol, MD, FRCP, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Clinical Sciences Research Institute, Warwick Medical School, UK "This excellent book will prove itself an invaluable prescribing guide for all front line clinical staff who work in an emergency department, whether they are permanent or in-training members of the team." - Associate Professor Geoff Hughes, MBBS, FRCP, FCEM, FACEM, DRCOG, Editor-in-Chief, Emergency Medicine Journal, from the Foreword