High-Risk IV Medications in Special Patient Populations

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kane-Gill, Sandra (Editor), Dasta, Joseph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Pharmacy.; Medicine.; Anesthesiology.; Emergency medicine.; Critical care medicine.; Internal medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Intensive / Critical Care Medicine.; Internal Medicine.; Emergency Medicine.

Critically ill patients are at risk for a higher frequency and severity of adverse drug events (ADEs), and special patient populations of the critically ill – requiring for instance individualized dosing due to non-average weight, hepatic or renal dysfunction, extracorporeal circulation devices, adv...