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Made Incredibly Easy! 

Dosage Calculations Made Incredibly Easy, 4th edition is loaded with the crucial facts you need when calculating and administering medications to patients. It offers: "real world problems" that walk you through real-life situations of determining drug dosages and hundreds of examples to illustrate different techniques in performing complex calculations. 

vi, 378 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm 

Part 1 Math Basics -- Chapter 1 Fractions -- Chapter 2 Decimals and percentages -- Chapter 3 Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X -- Chapter 4 Dimensional analysis -- Part 2 Measurement systems -- Chapter 5 Metric system -- Chapter 6 Alternative measurement systems -- Part 3 Recording drug administration -- Chapter 7 Drug orders -- Chapter 8 Administration records -- Chapter 9 Preventing drug errors -- Part 4 Oral, topical, and rectal drugs -- Chapter 10 Calculating oral drug dosages -- Chapter 11 Calculating topical and rectal drug dosages -- Part 5 Parenteral administration -- Chapter 12 Calculating parenteral injections -- Chapter 13 Calculating I.V. infusions -- Part 6 Special calculations -- Chapter 14 Calculating pediatric dosages -- Chapter 15 Calculating obstetric drug dosages -- Chapter 16 Calculating critical care dosages -- Practice makes perfect -- Drug therapy conversions -- Dosage calculation formulas -- Glossary -- Selected references -- Index