Neonatal Formulary provides comprehensive guidance on the safe use of the drugs prescribed during pregnancy and commonly given to babies during labour and delivery, as well as during lactation and the first year of life. Treating the journey from pregnancy to parenthood as a continuous event, the new edition contains updated information on how the drugs affect both mother and baby. The first part of the book focuses on drug storage, drug licensing, and drug prescribing. In addition, it explains to why the metabolism of drugs differs in premature and sick infants, and why the practice of extrapolating doses from adult studies is unsafe. Patient safety, excipients, and therapies that affect drugs are also covered. Part 2 consists of monographs for over 250 drugs that may find use in the neonatal unit, and possibly outside it. Each monograph is divided into sections covering use, pharmacology, treatment, drug interactions or other administration, information, supply and administration, and references. The monographs are evidence-based and include links to the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and national guidelines. The third part presents information on additional drugs, and groups of drugs, that are often taken by mothers during pregnancy, labour, or during breast feeding. The drugs discussed in this section all affect the foetus or infant. Containing far more detail than is available in the British National Formulary for Children, and with additional online material featuring updates related to specific drugs and dosing, Neonatal Formulary is an essential guide for neonatologists, neonatal nurses, hospital pharmacists, obstetric staff, advanced nurse practitioners and for all health care professionals caring for pregnant women and their infants in the first year of life.

Neonatal Formulary is a unique publication that provides comprehensive guidance on the safe use of all the drugs prescribed during pregnancy and commonly given to babies during labour, delivery, and the first year of life. This new edition provides improved and detailed coverage of the many drugs that are given to women during pregnancy and during lactation where the baby's welfare must be borne in mind as well as that of the mother. Thus the whole 'pregnancy through to parenthood' journey is treated as a continuous event with information about drug use and the effects of drugs at all stages of the development from fetus to infant. Containing far more detail than is available in the British National Formulary for Children and with a companion website featuring updates related to specific drugs and dosing, Neonatal Formulary is an essential guide for neonatologists, neonatal nurses, hospital pharmacists, obstetric staff, advanced nurse practitioners and for all health care professionals caring for pregnant women and their infants in the first year of life. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from iTunes, Google Play or the MedHand Store.

Now in its sixth edition, the Neonatal Formulary continues to provide advice on the safe use of drugs commonly given to babies during labor, delivery and the first month of life. In addition to the 230 monographs featured in the previous edition, 6 new drugs were added and all references have been updated. An accompanying website offers regular updates and electronic cross-links to a wide range of other useful information for neonatologists and neonatal nurses, hospital pharmacists, obstetric staff or general practitioners. For easy access, the whole text is also available for purchase in a PDA format.

The Neonatal Formulary is a unique book providingadvice on the safe use of drugs during pregnancy, labour andthroughout the first year of life. Thoroughly updated, this fifthedition draws on the experience of an increasingly internationalgroup of neonatologists and is now a well established reference onprescribing in infancy. It covers all the drugs commonly used inthe perinatal period, including those used for fetal treatment, andsummarizes how the prescribing of each has to adapt to changes indrug elimination during the first year of life. Key features for the fifth edition include: fully updated monographs and references 20 full monographs for diseases more commonly seen in thetropics invaluable information on dose sizes and administration forbabies further inclusion of evidence from relevant RCTs and systematicreviews from the Cochrane database a free access website with regular updates and links to otheruseful information. ahref="http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/medicine/bmj/nnf5/updates.asp"IMPORTANTDOSAGE CHANGE/a

Provides comprehensive information on prescribing, administration, storage and adverse reactions of drugs in the newborn and their mothers. The layout shows essential data on over 300 drugs at a glance. A whole page monograph is devoted to each commonly used drug, including certain blood products, vaccines and orphan drugs not mentioned in some formularies. Each monograph gives comprehensive coverage of the drug's main uses, dosages in full-term and premature babies, formulations available, costs, pharmacokinetics and possible side-effects. A further section covers drugs commonly prescribed to mothers during labour and after birth.

This major reference text provides in a compact, and regularly updated form all the information that doctors, midwives and nurses need to know about the prescribing of drugs, and about their safe and accurate administration. Information on placental transfer, teratogenicity, and toxicity is provided for each listed drug, as is information on the extent to which the drug appears in breast milk (and the extent to which this matters). A whole page monograph is provided for all the commonly used drugs, blood products and vaccines and for a range of "orphan" drugs not mentioned in other standard formularies. Key references to the recently published literature are provided for each drug. Guidance is also given on drug storage, safe drug administration, the care and use of intravascular lines and the recognition, management and reporting of adverse reactions. There is also introductory advice on the management of suspected infection, renal failure, neonatal pain, circulatory and vascular problems and the control of seizures. The Neonatal Formulary is an invaluable reference in all hospital maternity departments.

"Neonatal and Pediatric Pharmacology offers guidelines for safe, effective, and rational drug therapy in newborns, children and adolescents. The book provides relevant and useful data on the molecular, physiologic, biochemical, and pharmacologic mechanisms of drug action and therapy in this population. The authors identify areas of innovative basic and translational research necessary for the continuing evaluation and development of drugs for the fetus, newborns, children and adolescents. Neonatal and Pediatric Pharmacology is is a valuable reference for all health care professionals who treat the fetus, newborns, children, and adolescents, including neonatologists, nurses, pediatricians, general practitioners, students, obstetricians, perinatologists, surgeons and allied health professionals. It will be useful anytime during the day and especially in the middle of the night when knowledge of appropriate indications, safe and effective use, dosage, and therapeutic regimen for a certain drug or molecular entity is immediately needed. The book is also directed to those involved in basic, clinical, and other academic pharmacological research, the pharmaceutical industry, and regulatory agencies dealing with drug and therapeutic developments for this population. Those teaching pharmacology and therapeutics will find this compilation of information extremely useful in preparing teaching materials"--Provided by publisher.