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Practical Paediatric Prescribing
How to Prescribe the Most Common Drugs
Will Carroll (Author), Francis J Gilchrist (Author), Michael Mitchell (Author), Helen Sammons (Author), Jyothi Srinivas (Author)
9780702076121
Paperback, published 24 April 2020
240 pages
27 x 18 x 1.6 cm, 0.26 kg
Prescribing for children is problematic. Children are not small adults in terms of their physiology, and they cannot be subjects in clinical trials. This makes prescribing for them something of an art and a daunting one at that for trainees. Will Carroll (co-editor of the Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics amongst other titles for paediatrics trainees) with a team of fellow paediatricians and a hospital pharmacist have sought to demystify prescribing for children. The team has identified what from their experience are the most common drugs prescribed to children and have addressed each one, adding detail about how each medicine works. Each chapter follows the ABCDE structure covering Absorption, Biological effects, Clearance, Dosing and side Effects in children. This book is a succinct, portable reference, modelled closely on Hitchings et al.: The Top 100 Drugs.
Abidec® Acetazolamide Acetylcysteine Aciclovir Adrenaline (epinephrine) Amiloride Aminophylline and theophylline Amitriptyline Amoxicillin Second-generation antihistamines Atenolol Atropine Azithromycin Baclofen Beclometasone dipropionate Calcium Captopril Carbamazepine Carobel Cefotaxime Ceftriaxone Cefuroxime Chloral hydrate Chlorphenamine Ciclosporin Ciprofloxacin Clarithromycin Clobazam Codeine phosphate Colomycin Desmopressin Dexamethasone Digoxin Dobutamine Docusate Domperidone Dopamine Dornase alfa (DNAse) Erythromycin Ethosuximide Fluticasone Furosemide Gabapentin Gastrografin® Gaviscon® Gentamicin Glycopyrronium bromide (glycopyrrolate) Heparin (unfractionated) Hydrocortisone Hyoscine hydrobromide Hypertonic saline Ibuprofen Insulin Ipratropium bromide Iron (ferrous sulfate, ferrous fumarate, sodium feredetate) Isoniazid Ketamine Lactulose Lamotrigine Levetiracetam Levothyroxine sodium Lidocaine Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) Magnesium Mannitol Melatonin Meropenem Methylphenidate (Ritalin®, Medikinet®, Concerta XL®, Equasym XL®) Methotrexate Methylprednisolone Metronidazole Midazolam Montelukast Morphine Macrogols Omalizumab Omeprazole Ondansetron Oxybutynin hydrochloride Paracetamol Paraldehyde Phosphate (enema and supplements) Piperacillin with tazobactam (Tazocin®) Prednisolone Propranolol Ranitidine Rifampicin Salbutamol Salmeterol Senna Sodium picosulfate Sodium valproate Spironolactone Surfactant: pulmonary Tacrolimus Tobramycin Tranexamic acid Trimethoprim Vitamin D Vitamin K (Phytomenadione) Warfarin Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Appendix 3
