Medical dosage calculations
By: June Looby Olsen, Anthony Patrick Giangrasso, Dolores M. Shrimpton.
Contributors: Giangrasso, Anthony Patrick.; Shrimpton, Dolores M.
Edition: 8th ed.
Publisher: Pearson Prentice Hall
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Upper Saddle River, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
Subjects: Pharmaceutical arithmetic; Pharmaceutical arithmetic -- Problems, exercises, etc; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- administration & dosage -- Nurses' Instruction; Mathematics -- Nurses' Instruction
Genres: Problems, exercises, etc.; Nurses' Instruction.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. Review of arithmetic for medical dosage calculations; title: Ch. 2. Drug administration; title: Ch. 3. Dimensional analysis; title: Ch. 4. The apothecary, household, and metric systems; title: Ch. 5. Converting from one system of measurement to another; title: Ch. 6. Calculating oral medication doses; title: Ch. 7. Syringes; title: Ch. 8. Preparation of solutions; title: Ch. 9. Parenteral medications; title: Ch. 10. Calculating flow rates for enteral solutions and intravenous infusions; title: Ch. 11. Calculating flow rates for intravenous medications and duration of flow; title: Ch. 12. Calculating pediatric dosages.