Mosby's Oncology Drug Reference Book

This convenient handbook gives you instant access to current, clinically relevant drug information. You'll find complete drug monographs for more than 100 drugs, plus separate units on pediatric oncology, supportive care, and drug interactions. In addition, special nursing considerations highlight your specific role and responsibility with respect to administration, patient monitoring, and patient education for each drug. A companion Evolve® website gives you quarterly updates, web links, formulas, and IV compatibilities.Full monographs provide crucial information you need for more than 100 of the most commonly used drugs in oncology practice and include Clinical Pharmocology, Safe Handling issues, Adverse Reactions, Unlabeled Uses, and Y-site Compatibles.Entire Pediatric Oncology unit focuses on considerations specific to pediatric patients.Supportive Care sections help you manage your patients' symptoms and side effects.Easy-to-use tables equip you with drug interactions for over 66 anticancer drugs.13 preventive rules help you avoid medication errors.Occupational Exposures to Hazardous Drugs unit teaches you to assess risk, implement protective measures, and monitor hazardous agents.Color insert contains images of the pathophysiology of chemotherapy-induced emesis, oral mucosa and phases of mucositis, normal bone remodeling, and a cross-sectional diagram of vertebral column structures and corresponding metastases.Appendices provide you with quick reference for formulas, chemotherapy regimes and drug information on the web, patient assistance programs, and newly approved drugs in abbreviated monograph format.Flexible, water-resistant cover stands up to daily use on the job.Evolve Resources, free with qualified adoptions, include quarterly online updates with the latest information on newly approved drugs and indications, as well as commonly used formulas, IV compatibilities, and weblinks.PDA feature available with separate purchase allows you to download the entire handbook to a PDA device for easy-to-use navigation and search capability.Read More