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Dosage calculations made incredibly easy!. / - Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Healt/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2010. - 378 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Incredibly easy . - Incredibly easy (Philadelphia, Pa.) .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 373) and index.

Fractions -- Decimals and percentages -- Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X -- Dimensional analysis -- Metric system -- Alternative measurement systems -- Drug orders -- Administration records -- Preventing drug errors -- Calculating oral drug dosages -- Calculating topical and rectal drug dosages -- Calculating parenteral injections -- Calculating I.V. infusions -- Calculating pediatric dosages -- Calculating obstetric drug dosages -- Calculating critical care dosages.

Reviews the basic math needed to perform dosage calculation. It walks readers through the interpretation of hundreds of examples of drug orders and the performance of hundreds of complex dosage calculations.

ISBN: 9781605471976 1605471976

LCCN: 2008053297

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 101491199 DNLM

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pharmaceutical arithmetic.
Pharmaceutical Preparations--administration & dosage--Nurses' Instruction.
Mathematics--Nurses' Instruction.

LC Class. No.: RS 57 / .D722 2010