The latest edition of this drug reference presents information on over 2,000 medications used in the care of surgical or critically ill patients.

The text is presented in an easy-to-use, dictionary-style format with medications organized alphabetically. Each monograph includes up to 30 fields of information, including anesthesia and critical care concerns, use, dosage, monitoring parameters, and special consideration to anesthetic drug interactions when applicable.

Supplemental information includes a Special Topics/Issues section addressing perianesthetic patient management issues and an appendix covering abbreviations and measurements, comparative drug charts, commonly used herbal medicines, therapy recommendations, and more. A Pharmacologic Category Index is included.

Updates to this edition include:

• 15 new drug monographs
• U.S. Black Box warnings highlighted in the monographs
• Special topics updates including anesthesia concerns for neurosurgery, anesthesia for geriatric patients, anesthesia for obstetric patients in non-obstetric surgery, perioperative management of the patient with diabetes, and perioperative evaluation for noncardiac surgery in the cardiac patient

By Andrew J. Donnelly, Pharm.D., MBA, FASHP; Verna L. Baughman, M.D.; Jeffrey P. Gonzales, Pharm.D., BCPS; Julie Golembiewski, Pharm.D.; and Elizabeth A. Tomsik, Pharm.D., BCPS

ISBN: 978-1-59195-229-9; 2008; 1,705 pages; softbound