The Injectable Drugs Guide provides a user-friendly, single point of reference for healthcare professionals in the prescribing, preparation, administration and monitoring of injectable medicines.
The idea for such a book grew out from some of the entries in our sister book Clinical
Pharmacy Pocket Companion, which, as well as covering many clinical topics such as electrolyte disturbances and perioperative management of medicines, also deals with a number of medicines requiring therapeutic monitoring. It became apparent that the benefits of such an approach could be rolled out to a greater number of medicines. At around the same time the UK National Patient Safety Agency issued a patient safety alert entitled ‘Promoting safer use of injectable medicines’ (NPSA/2007/20). This requires organisations to risk assess individual parenteral drugs and put procedures in place to allow them to be handled more safely.
The Injectable Drugs Guide is a handbook supporting the risk assessment process (each drug has a risk rating). It also provides a holistic approach to injectable medicines to meet the needs of themany disciplines involved in the clinical use of injectables and also those providing advice about injectable drug use.
The book comprises primarily individual drug monographs. There are a number of appendices giving further guidance on specific aspects of injectable therapy and additional clinical information (the full list of these is found on the Contents page). In themain, cancer chemotherapy agents are not covered in themonographs. This is because there are tight controls around the use of these agents in clinical practice. Their handling in clinical settings is highly protocol driven and locality specific; use by inexperienced individuals is inappropriate.
Injectable Drugs Guide consists of an A-Z of approximately 300 injectable drugs in monograph format. Each monograph is presented in a format that sequences the information as needed by healthcare professionals from contemplation of treatment, through preparation and administration, to the monitoring that may be required during and after therapy. Monographs are generally presented in the following order:
- Drug name and form(s)
- Background information
- Pre-treatment checks
- Dose
- Routes of administration
- Technical information
- Monitoring
Additional information includes
- Common and serious undesirable effects
- Pharmacokinetics
- Significant interactions
- Action in case of overdose
- Counselling
- Risk rating
- References
Contents
- Preface
- How to use the Injectable Drugs Guide monographs
- Injectable Drugs Guide on Medicines Complete
- Feedback
- About the authors
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Monographs A - Z
- Appendix 1. The basics of injectable therapy
- Appendix 2. Good management principles
- Appendix 3. Usual responsibilities of individual practitioners
- Appendix 4. Advantages and disadvantages to parenteral therapy
- Appendix 5. Injection techniques and routes
- Appendix 6. Extravasation
- Appendix 7. Intravascular devices
- Appendix 8. Infusion devices
- Appendix 9. Syringe drivers
- Appendix 10. Ideal body weight, dosing in patients with renal or hepatic impairment
- Appendix 11. Risk ratings
- Index of cross-referenced terms
About the authors
- Lynn Bruce studied pharmacy at Aston University. The first 20 years of her working life were based in secondary care variously as MI pharmacist, clinical pharmacy lead, clinical economist and latterly in various management positions. She migrated across the divide to primary care in 1997 becoming PCG and then PCT prescribing advisor. Hospital clinical pharmacy beckoned her back to secondary care in 2002: she is now Pharmacy Team Leader on the Medical Assessment Unit at the Royal Blackburn Hospital.
- Vince Goodey graduated in 1985 from the London School of Pharmacy, and has since worked primarily in the hospital sector in clinical and managerial roles. As a postgraduate Vince studied at the University ofManchester to attain an MSc in Pharmacy Practice in 1996.
- Alistair Gray is from Sunderland. He studied pharmacy at Sunderland Polytechnic, graduating in 1988 with first-class honours, and then completed his pre-registration year with Boots in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He continued working for Boots in a variety of pharmacy and store management positions in the North West of England. In 2002 he changed disciplines and became Community Services pharmacist at Queens Park Hospital in Blackburn. He completed a Diploma in Clinical & Health Services Pharmacy at the University of Manchester in 2008 and subsequently became Clinical Services Lead Pharmacist for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009 based at the now re-named Royal Blackburn Hospital.
- Jane Wright, after working for 18 years in the Civil Service, attended the University of Manchester to study pharmacy. Jane graduated in 1994 and did her pre-registration year at the Royal Preston Hospital. For the next ten years Jane worked in Blackburn hospitals in a variety of clinical roles, her last being Clinical Services Manager with responsibility for education and training. In 1999 she obtained a Diploma in Clinical & Health Services Pharmacy at the University of Manchester. She moved to Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust in April 2005 where she is currently employed as Lead Pharmacist for East Lancashire.
Product Details
- Paperback: 907 pages
- Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press; 1 edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0853697876
- ISBN-13: 978-0853697879
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.1 x 1.4 inches
List Price: $79.99