Notes on Injectable Drugs Adult 7th Edition Instructions for corrections - placement of stickers and handwritten corrections issued September 2018 Please make the following changes to each copy of Notes on Injectable Drugs 7th Edition using the stickers provided and a black pen. Tick complete BENZATHINE BENZYLPENICILLIN Page 64 Please cross out the sentence ‘Use a concentration of 442 mg/mL when measuring part doses’ Please place the sticker ‘This statement has been removed …..’ as highlighted below CASPOFUNGIN Page 83 Please cross out the sentence ‘Discard if exposed to room temperature for longer than 48 hours’ as highlighted below. DEXMEDETOMIDINE Page 143 Please place the sticker ‘maintenance dose range: 0.2 to 1 microgram/kg/hour’ over the sentence ‘maintenance dose range: 0.2 to 1 microgram/kg/minute’ as highlighted below. ERTAPENEM Page 186 Please place the sticker ‘Do not inject into a blood vessel (lidocaine contraindicated)’ over the sentence ‘Do inject into a blood vessel (lidocaine contraindicated)’ as highlighted below. ESMOLOL Page 189 Please place the sticker ‘ …’ over the table ‘ …’ as highlighted below. GLYCERYL TRINITRATE Page 232 Please place the sticker ‘Usual concentrations range from 0.05mg/mL to 0.4mg/mL’ over the sentence ‘Usual concentrations range from 0.5mg/mL to 0.4mg/mL’ as highlighted below. MANNITOL Page 300 Please place the sticker ‘100 g in 500 mL (20%) solution’ over the sentence ‘100 g in 500 mL (10%) solution’ as highlighted below. METARAMINOL Page 307 Please place the sticker ‘10 mg in 10 mL and 10 mg in 20 mL solution (Biomed)’ over the sentence ‘10 mg in 10 mL and 10 mg in 20 mg solution (Biomed, section 23)’ as highlighted below.
METHYLENE BLUE Page 312 Please cross out the sentence ‘Sodium chloride 0.9%’ as highlighted below. MORPHINE SULPHATE OR MORPHINE TARTRATE Page 331 Please place the sticker ‘300 micrograms in 0.3 mL (1 mg/mL) [section 29]’ over the sentence ‘300 micrograms in 0.3 mL (0.1 mg/mL) [section 29]’ as highlighted below. MULTIVITAMIN IV (PABRINEX) Page 338 Please place the sticker ‘Pabrinex No.2 contains 10mL’ over the sentence ‘Pabrinex No.2 contains 5mL’ as highlighted below. MULTIVITAMIN IV (PABRINEX) Page 338 Please place the sticker ‘Stock preparation (both ampoules): Store at room temperature (below 25oC). Do not freeze.’ over the sentence ‘Stock preparation (both ampoules): Refrigerate (between 2C and 8C). Do not freeze’ as highlighted below. MULTIVITAMIN IV (PABRINEX) Page 338 Please place the sticker ‘Dosage and administration …’ over the table ‘Dosage and administration …’ as highlighted below. MULTIVITAMIN IV (PABRINEX) Page 338 Please place the sticker ‘Direct IV injection …’ over the section ‘Direct IV injection …’ as highlighted below. POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN PHOSPHATE Page 401 Please place the sticker ‘Compatibility - IV fluids appropriate to dilute IV infusion…’ over the paragraph ‘Compatibility - IV fluids appropriate to dilute IV infusion…’ as highlighted below. SALBUTAMOL Page 430 Please place the sticker ‘5mg in 100mL’ over the sentence ‘5mg in 50mL’ as highlighted below. SODIUM BICARBONATE Page 432 Please cross out the sentence ‘(~1.5% is isotonic)’ as highlighted below. SODIUM BICARBONATE Page 433 Please place sticker 1 ‘The undiluted solution is hypertonic, and appropriate dilution (e.g. 0.1 mmol/mL) is necessary for safe peripheral administration’ over the bullet points ‘Isotonic solutions are preferred…’ as highlighted below.