This edition includes new recommendations for pediatric, geriatric, and breast-feeding patients. Expanded appendices include updates on antidotes and procedures for vesicant drug extravasation and orphan drugs. Each drug entry includes pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics; indications, route, and dosage; contraindications and precautions; interactions with other drugs; effects on diagnostic tests; overdose signs and treatments; adverse reactions classified four ways; and patient-teaching guidelines. Scores of tables and charts.
