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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816380203321

Titolo

Neonatal formulary 5 : drug use in pregnancy and the first year of life / / [compiled and edited by Edmund Hey]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA ; ; Oxford, : Blackwell Pub., 2007

ISBN

1-281-32214-8

9786611322144

0-470-75087-1

0-470-75035-9

Edizione

[5th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (322 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HeyEdmund

Disciplina

615.13

Soggetti

Newborn infants - Effect of drugs on

Pharmacopoeias

Obstetrical pharmacology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Neonatal Formulary 5: Drug Use in Pregnancy and the First Year of Life; Contents; Introduction; Important advisory statement; Further reading; Part 1 Drug prescribing and drug administration; Terms, symbols, abbreviations and units; Drug storage; Neonatal drug administration; Drugs and the body; Drugs and the law; Care and use of intravascular lines; Minimising IV infusion and drug hazards; Writing a hospital prescription; Adverse reactions and overtreatment; Renal failure; Body weight and surface area; Useful website addresses; Part 2 Drug Monographs

Part 3 Maternal medication and its effect on the babyIntroduction; Further reading; Maternal medication and the baby; Index, including synonyms and abbreviations

Sommario/riassunto

The Neonatal Formulary is a unique book providing advice on the safe use of drugs during pregnancy, labour and throughout the first year of life. Thoroughly updated, this fifth edition draws on the experience of an increasingly international group of neonatologists and is now a well established reference on prescribing in infancy. It covers all the drugs commonly used in the perinatal period, including those used for fetal



treatment, and summarizes how the prescribing of each has to adapt to changes in drug elimination during the first year of life.        Key feat