Geriatric Dosage Handbook: Including Clinical Recommendations and Monitoring Guidelines

by Judith L. Beizer, Todd P. Semla, Martin D. Higbee

Book Overview

Many physiologic changes occur with aging, some of which affect the pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of medications. For many drugs, exact dosing guidelines for geriatric patients have not been... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591951747
• ISBN13: 9781591951742
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Lexi-Comp
• Length: 1855 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 4.6" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

A superb book

It's a great book for reference, not just for the American or Canadian physician, but also for European pharmacists and physicians. The only problem I have found is that the format isn't good to carry it with you but you won't mind it of you use it in your desk.

It's a very good book

I'm very satisfied with the book Geriatric Dosage Handbook. The sections and explanations are very clear and useful. I recomend it. Rubens

Indispensible for any practicing medical provider working with the geriatric population.

This book is an excellent resource complete with comprehensive tables. It gives monitoring parameters, patient education information, doseage adjustmets for renal insufficiency, pharmakinetics, you name it, this book has it. It makes my job much easier.

Keeping everybody on the same page

This book ties together all the features needed to quickly review the appropriateness of the drug for the diagnosis. Since the regulations were promulgated by HCFA pertaining to the unnecessary drugs there has been a need for a book of this type. The Beers article has been unpopular in some settings, but as a nurse with more than thirty years of geriatric experience I find the guidelines to be right on target. I am purchasing this book for the nursing stations in our skilled facility.Barbara Primm, BSN, RN, C