Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book)

4th April 2024

Pediatric Injectable Drugs: The Teddy Bear Book is one of ASHP's most recognised and trusted resources dedicated to providing guidance on the use of injectable medications in children.

For more than 20 years, pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other health professionals have relied on The Teddy Bear Book to provide the most comprehensive research-based information on administering injectable medications to children.

The Teddy Bear Book is the only reference of its kind that focuses on the unique issues that healthcare professionals face when using injectable medications in children, such as limited fluid volumes, maximum concentrations, and rates of administration.

 

The 12th edition features more than 4,800 references for 273 updated monographs (including 7 monographs that are new to this edition) that, like previous editions, cover the following areas:

  • Medication error potential
  • Infusion-related cautions
  • Dosages and dose adjustment in organ dysfunction
  • Additives and suitable diluents
  • Maximum concentrations
  • Preparation and delivery
  • Bolus, intermittent, and continuous IV administration
  • Other routes of administration

New monographs include:

  • Cysteine
  • Cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin
  • Dalbavancin
  • Difibrotide
  • Ferric derisomaltose
  • Ferrumoxytol
  • Varicella zoster immune globulin

New features added to all monographs:

  • Expanded monograph layout
  • Pronunciations
  • Enhanced safety information including ASHP’s Standardise 4 Safety concentration standards, and The KIDs List
  • AHFS® Pharmacologic-Therapeutic Classification© specific category identification

Pediatric Injectable Drugs (The Teddy Bear Book) is published by ASHP - American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

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