Dosage calculations : a multi-method approach /
Anthony Patrick Giangrasso, Dolores M. Shrimpton.
- Boston : Pearson, c2013.
- xvii, 461 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes index.
Review of arithmetic for dosage calculations -- Safe and accurate drug administration -- Dimensional analysis and ratio & proportion -- The household and metric systems -- Converting from one system of measurement to another -- Oral medications -- Syringes -- Solutions -- Parenteral medications -- Flow rates and durations of enteral and intravenous infusions -- Flow rates and dosage rates for intravenous medications -- Pediatric dosages.