Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia: 2002 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition [Paperback]

Steven M Green (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 15, 2002

Most popular & most trusted portable drug dosing reference available! A convenient, organized & concise pocket manual detailing typical drug dosing (both FDA & off-label) trade & generic formulae, metabolism & safety in pregnancy

Product Details

• Paperback: 127 pages
• Publisher: Tarascon Pub; 16th edition (January 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882742214
• ISBN-13: 978-1882742219
• Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 3.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,103,591 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #18 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Medicine > Reference > Drug Guides

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have, May 28, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia: 2002 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition (Paperback)

As an internal medicine resident this book is absolutly vital to my life and practice. In nearly three years I have not once gone to work without it in my pocket. The book is small enough to carry anywhere, well organized, full of useful information and contains every drug you will be perscribing on a regular basis. Whether you are a medical student or a resident, you need this book!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Invaluable Pocket Reference, November 25, 2001

By 

rjm (Enfield, NH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia: 2002 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition (Paperback)

As a resident I have found this book to an invaluable tool for physicians, 3rd and 4th year medical students. It packs an incredible amount of information into such a small package. The book includes every medication, dosage, formulation you'll ever need. It includes a number of obscure drugs as well as off label indications, which come up quite often, not included in epocrates. I had to dig up this classic after being left high and dry by epocrates a number of times. There are a number of charts such as BSA, ACLS, safe drugs during pregnancy that are great as well. Overall this book is definitely worth the pocket space.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Incredibly Useful Book, March 2, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia: 2002 Classic Shirt-Pocket Edition (Paperback)

A friend and I were talking about this book. "Obviously," he said, "it was written by a clinician." This is extremely high praise.

I discovered this book several years ago. Now, I don't go to work without it. I can look up any drug in the world within seconds (the index helpfully tells you whether the listing is at the top, middle or bottom of the page) and find out basically everything I need to know: what class of drug, what it's used for in clinical practice, how it's metabolized, can you give it to pregnant women, can you give it to breastfeeding women, what's the relative cost, what's the usual dosage and route, what's the DEA classification . . . and also read a sentence or two along the lines of "One or two things you should know about this drug:" for example, terazosin: "First dose at bedtime to avoid orthostatic hypotension."

To compress the entire PDR into 127 pages that fit into your shirt pocket is a truly impressive work of scholarship. Saunders comes in a close second, and the Washington Manual a distant third. The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia is, in my opinion, the most useful medical book ever published.