Giangrasso, Anthony Patrick.

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.

9780132158626 (pbk.) 0132158620 (pbk.)


Pharmaceutical arithmetic--Textbooks.
Drugs--Administration--Textbooks.

615.19 / GIA 2013