Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care: An A-Z Guide (6th Edition)

Description

This essential new edition provides current information on how to use drugs safely and effectively in the intensive care setting.

Now in its sixth edition, the Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care is the essential guide to using drugs safely and effectively in the intensive care setting. The book is split into two sections: an A-Z guide to the drugs available, and concise notes on the key topics and situations faced on a daily basis. The A-Z section provides succinct information on each drug including uses, limitations, administration directions and adverse effects. The second section details practice guidelines such as insulin therapy, Parkinson’s disease therapy when nil-by-mouth, and drug dosing in renal failure. This revised edition includes seventeen new drug monographs and covers several new topics, including blood glucose management. A colour chart showing drug compatibility for intravenous administration is included at the back of the book. Presented in a concise, compact format, this book is an invaluable resource for doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals caring for critically ill patients.

Key Features

• Provides the latest information on drug therapy in the intensive care unit
• New monographs have been added and old ones thoroughly updated
• Includes a unique ‘IV drugs compatibility chart’ so that readers can identify compatible and non-compatible drugs combinations

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. How to use this book
3. Abbreviations
4. Acknowledgements
5. Drugs: An A-Z Guide
6. Prescribing using generic or brand names
7. Routes of administration
8. Loading dose
9. Drug metabolism
10. Enzyme systems
11. Drug excretion
12. Drug tolerance
13. Drug interactions
14. Therapeutic drug monitoring
15. Target range of concentration
16. Pharmacology in the critically ill
17. Body weight
18. Guide to ideal tidal volume
19. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation
20. Drugs in advanced life support
21. Management of acute major anaphylaxis
22. Management of acute severe hyperkalaemia
23. Management of malignant hyperthermia
24. Sedation, analgesia and neuromuscular blockade
25. Opioid conversion table
26. Antiretroviral drugs: alternatives for swallowing difficulties
27. Management of status epilepticus
28. Prevention of delirium tremens and alcohol withdrawal syndrome
29. Prevention of Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome
30. Anti-arrhythmic drugs
31. Inotropes and vasopressors; Bronchospasm
32. Anti-ulcer drugs
33. Immunonutrition in the ICU
34. Corticosteroids
35. Short synacthen test
36. Bone marrow rescue following nitrous oxide
37. Heparin induced thrombocytopaenia
38. NOAC/DOAC
39. Antioxidants
40. Guidelines for patients with absent or dysfunctional spleen
41. Anti-microbial drugs
42. Bacterial gram staining
43. Antibiotics: sensitivities
44. Alterations to drug dosing in renal dysfunction and Haemo(dia)filtration
45. Chemical pleurodesis of malignant pleural effusion
46. Appendix A: creatinine clearance
47. Appendix B: weight conversion (stones/lb to kg)
48. Appendix C: body mass index (BMI) calculator
49. Appendix D: lean body weight charts
50. Appendix E: ideal tidal volume
51. Appendix F: estimated height from ulna length
52. Appendix G: infusion rate/dose calculation
53. Appendix H: drug compatibility chart
54. Appendix I: sodium content of oral medications
55. Appendix J: drug management of the brain-stem-dead donor
56. Appendix K: vancomycin by continuous infusion
57. Appendix L: Child-Pugh score
58. Appendix M: severe sepsis algorithm
59. Appendix N: insulin guidelines
60. Drug index.

Reviews

“Review of previous edition: ‘The book is particularly strong on newer medicines … and is stuffed full of useful pearls and snippets of information … an excellent book that can act as a touchstone for front-line clinical pharmacists in critical care.” – The Pharmaceutical Journal

“Overall this book certainly accomplishes the goal of providing a practical reference for medication administration. It is rather portable and could fit in the pocket of a white coat, it is well organized, and critical information is easily accessible and digestible … the sixth edition of the Handbook of Drugs in Intensive Care, An A-Z Guide offers a compact easy-to-use reference for physicians and nurses to guide optimal and safe drug treatment for most critically ill patients.” – Orestes Mavrothalassitis and Matthieu Legrand, Anesthesia & Analgesia

Authors Biography

Henry Paw is a consultant in intensive care medicine at York Hospital.

Rob Shulman is the lead pharmacist in critical care at University College London Hospitals, London.