Physician (Pedi) Standard Bundle

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The Physician (Pedi) Standard Bundle conveniently contains our latest versions of the 5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Davis's Drug Guide for Physicians, PediSuite and Bones.

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Price $114.99

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The Physician (Pedi) Standard Bundle Contains:

New for Medical Wizards, the 5-Minute Pediatric Consult (5th Ed) provides clinically essential information on the health problems commonly seen in infants, children, and adolescents - presented in a time-saving format ideal for today's busy clinician. The Fifth Edition of this practical reference provides immediate, point-of-care advice for over 460 medical conditions, and provides the clinician quick access to pertinent information when addressing clinical problems or answering parent questions.

The list of topics contained have evolved to combine everyday problems with more complicated and exotic disease that are discovered with time. This consult has evolved in response to it's users, with addition of topics in response to new information, and new descriptions of clinical problems such as prion disease and the metabolic syndrome. The contents will continue to be fine tuned as appropriate for consultation.

Features include:
• 5-Minute Consult format lets you locate needed facts quickly.
• Newly added information on childhood obesity, metabolic syndrome and probiotics. Also on ingestion of caustics, opioids and "ecstasy-type" drugs.
• Information concerning SARS and other infections, with latest treatment and recommendations.
• Coverage of each disorder includes clinical presentation, pre-hospital, diagnosis, treatment, disposition, and more.
• All chapters have been thoroughly updated to reflect current trends in diagnosis and treatment .
• This edition has new emergency department material.
• Other features include a medication index, syndromes glossary, surgical glossary, laboratory values, and tables.
• All information is well organized and easily accessible for effective bedside consultation.

With this unique mobile platform you can quickly review information and add personalized notes. Navigation is simple and intuitive. There is no need to fuss around with heavy books, when this program along with others can fit in your palm.

Editors:
Charles I. Schwartz, MD
Louis M. Bell, Jr., MD
Peter M. Bingham, MD
Esther K. Chung, MD, MPH
David F. Friedman, MD
Kathleen M. Loomes, MD
Petra Mamula, MD
Maria R. Mascarenhas, MBBS
Ronn E. Tanel, MD

5-Minute Pediatric Consult, Copyright 2008 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.

Davis's Drug Guide for Physicians with Integrated Calculators 4.0, based on Davis's Drug Guide 11th Ed (FA Davis Co) provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date drug information in well-organized, nursing-focused monographs, adapted for the physician. It includes extensive supplemental material in 18 appendices, thoroughly addresses the issue of safe medication administration, educates the reader about 50 different therapeutic classes of drugs, and conveniently includes invaluable calculation tools by Medical Wizards.

In this 11th edition, we have continued the tradition of focusing on safe medication administration and even more information about health care’s most vulnerable patients: children, the elderly, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers. Look for more Pedi, Geri, OB, and Lactation headings throughout the monographs. In addition, we’ve expanded our information relevant to Canadian students and nurses. You’ll find a new appendix comparing Canadian and U.S. pharmaceutical practices, more Canada-only combination drugs in the Combination Drugs appendix, and additional Canadian brand names in the drug monographs. To help you find this information quickly, we’ve also added a maple leaf icon in the index next to each Canadian entry.

Davis's Drug Guide for Physicians with Integrated Calculators merges the advantages of weight based drug dosing calculation with a comprehensive drug reference. The user should review the integrated critical care infusion calculators for items such as dopamine, nitroglycerin, amiodarone, and other common critical care medications. The flashing red calculator icon alerts the user when looking up a drug that a calculator is available.

Completely updated with expanded content:
• High-alert drugs and life-threatening side effects are visually highlighted
• Over 5000 trade and generic drugs
• Nearly 150 drug classifications (therapeutic and pharmacologic)
• Comprehensive coverage on Over 1700 drug monographs
• 700 commonly used combination drugs
• 400 integrated calculators
• Extensive cross-linking has been implemented between drugs
• Search via Main, Generic, Trade, Therapeutic, Pharmacologic, and Eye Medications indexes
• "Do not confuse with, crush, break, or chew" caution statements highlighted
• Complete drug dosing considerations for adult, pediatric, and geriatric patients
• IV information including dose, dilution, syringe/Y-site/additive/solution compatibility and incompatibility, rate, intermittent/continuous infusion, precautions, and more.

Monographs include:
• Action of Drug
• Adverse Reactions
• Assessment of Therapy
• Availability
• Contraindication/Precautions
• Dose/Route
• Evaluation of Therapy
• General Info (which includes High Alert Status, Drug Name, Classification, Pregnancy Category, and Controlled Substances Info)
• Implementation of Therapy
• Indications/Common Uses
• Interactions
• Patient/Family Teaching
• Pharmacokinetics

Additional content includes:
• Abbreviations
• Administering Medications to Children
• Administration Techniques
• Canadian Drugs
• Combination Drugs
• Controlled Substances Info
• Conversion of Units Calculators
• Dietary Guidelines
• Drug Classifications
• Equinalgesic Dosing Guidelines
• Fentanyl Transderm Conversion
• Hazardous Drugs
• Immunizations
• Insulins and Insulin Therapy
• Laboratory Values
• Medication Errors
• Medications to Use with Caution
• Narcotic Equivalency Info
• Natural/Herbal Products
• Ophthalmic Medications
• Pediatric Dosage Calculations
• Pediatric Fluid and Electrolyte Requirements
• Pregnancy Category Information
• Recent Drug Approvals
• Special Dosing Considerations

Receive Free quarterly updates for one year following purchase with the latest FDA-approved medications from FA Davis - feel free to download a copy for evaluation.

PediSuite 8.0 was designed to provide comprehensive pediatric information and calculation tools in eighteen easy to navigate sections. It enables the user to perform instant calculations for drug dosages, antibiotics, critical care drips, code drugs, fluids, toxicology, and growth charts. All types of healthcare providers including Physicians, Pharmacists, Paramedics, and Nurses have been able to reduce valuable time, stress, and error by using this product.

New 8.0 Features include:
• Auto updates now included, with future updates occurring on a regular basis *
• All modules upgraded and expanded to represent latest updates in content and protocols.
• New topics added to Transfusions, PediTox, PediDrips, and much more.
• Major expansion of PediDrugs to include most medications prescribed to the pediatric population.
• Improved interface and expansion of PediAbx with both alphabetical and class search.
• PediInfo updated with Dermatomes, Spontaneous Pneumothorax, SARS, Pyloric stenosis, Bronchiolitis, Bell's Palsy, and more.
• Many additions to the PediCalc module to include items such as APACHE II score, NIH Stroke score, Pneumonia Severity index, Pediatric Asthma Symptom Severity score, ABCD2 Stroke score, Alvarado scoring system, and over 25 additional major calculators!

18 Modules:
• Abx Wizard – A miniature antibiotic guide, showing recommendations by condition with integrated drug dosing calculator for both children and adults.

• Infusion Calculator – A multiformat smart calculation tool to solve any generic infusion calculation need.

• NALS/PALS – Pediatric Advanced Life Support Protocols carefully adapted for rapid viewing and implementation, with latest 2005 updates.

• Paralytics – A substantial drug information and resource for paralytic agents.

• PediAbx – Complete dosing guide with integrated calculators for IV/IM/PO antibiotics for neonates and pediatrics, now searchable by alpha or antibiotic class.

• PediCalc - This expanded section contains nearly 70 calculators of items like osmolal gap, croup, apgar, glascow trauma scores, peak flow, oxygen tank time to empty, pregnancy calculator, blood alcohol calculator, NIH Stroke Score, APACHE II score, ABCD2 Stroke score, and much more.

• PediCode - Pediatric Code module with top selections that include all needed drugs with a single selection, based upon underlying condition (e.g. asthma, anaphylaxis, sepsis) PLUS rapid calculation of doses of over 30 drugs and interventions (Updated 2005 AHA guidelines) needed for emergent pediatric critical care.

• PediDrips – Pediatric Critical Care Infusion Calculator and reference.

• PediDrugs – Extensive dosing guide with integrated calculators for a wide range of pediatric drugs. Major expansion of this section occurred in version 8.0, including most routinely used drugs.

• PediFever - Rapid calculator of pediatric fever medications.

• PediFluids – Pediatric & Adult Burn Fluid calculator, Pediatric bolus and maintenance fluid calculator and new feature of %BSA Burn Calculator for both pediatrics and adults.

• PediGrowth - Pediatric growth chart module, based upon 2000 CDC data, with height, weight, head circumference, BMI, Z scores, normal Vitals and EKG reference.

• PediInfo – Over 300 areas of textbook type content. As part of auto updates, several content areas will be added frequently to expand this substantial resource.

• PediOTC – A quick reference to pediatric over the counter medications.

• PediRSI – A rapid calculator for Rapid Sequence Intubation including all needed drugs and tube sizes.

• PediSedate – This module calculates doses of agents used for procedural (conscious) sedation for adults and children.

• PediTox - Comprehensive Toxicology Information divided into information on ingestions, overdoses, toxidromes and the specific antidotes with integrated dose calculator.

• Transfusions – Provides quick reference and calculation tools for all commonly (and less commonly) needed blood products for both pediatrics and adults.

* This product is subscription based and will function for 1 year following purchase/registration. During this period all regular auto updates and support will be free.