Practical Paediatric Prescribing How to Prescribe the Most Common Drugs

Prescribing for children is problematic. Children are not small adults in terms of their physiology, and they cannot be subjects in clinical trials. This makes prescribing for them something of an art and a daunting one at that for trainees. Will Carroll (co-editor of the Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics amongst other titles for paediatrics trainees) with a team of fellow paediatricians and a hospital pharmacist have sought to demystify prescribing for children. The team has identified what from their experience are the most common drugs prescribed to children and have addressed each one, adding detail about how each medicine works. Each chapter follows the ABCDE structure covering Absorption, Biological effects, Clearance, Dosing and side Effects in children. This book is a succinct, portable reference, modelled closely on Hitchings et al.: The Top 100 Drugs.

• Written in conjunction with a hospital pharmacist for drug expertise.
• User-friendly double-page-spread approach.
• Each drug entry preceded by clinical pharmacology information with consistent headings: Why and when; Absorption; Biology.
• Each drug presented in consistent categories: Clearance; Dosing; Administration; Side effects and interactions; Monitoring and Cost.

Abidec®

Acetazolamide

Acetylcysteine

Aciclovir

Adrenaline (epinephrine)

Amiloride

Aminophylline and theophylline

Amitriptyline

Amoxicillin

Second-generation antihistamines

Atenolol

Atropine

Azithromycin

Baclofen

Beclometasone dipropionate

Calcium

Captopril

Carbamazepine

Carobel

Cefotaxime

Ceftriaxone

Cefuroxime

Chloral hydrate

Chlorphenamine

Ciclosporin

Ciprofloxacin

Clarithromycin

Clobazam

Codeine phosphate

Colomycin

Desmopressin

Dexamethasone

Digoxin

Dobutamine

Docusate

Domperidone

Dopamine

Dornase alfa (DNAse)

Erythromycin

Ethosuximide

Fluticasone

Furosemide

Gabapentin

Gastrografin®

Gaviscon®

Gentamicin

Glycopyrronium bromide (glycopyrrolate)

Heparin (unfractionated)

Hydrocortisone

Hyoscine hydrobromide

Hypertonic saline

Ibuprofen

Insulin

Ipratropium bromide

Iron (ferrous sulfate, ferrous fumarate, sodium feredetate)

Isoniazid

Ketamine

Lactulose

Lamotrigine

Levetiracetam

Levothyroxine sodium

Lidocaine

Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH)

Magnesium

Mannitol

Melatonin

Meropenem

Methylphenidate (Ritalin®, Medikinet®, Concerta XL®, Equasym XL®)

Methotrexate

Methylprednisolone

Metronidazole

Midazolam

Montelukast

Morphine

Macrogols

Omalizumab

Omeprazole

Ondansetron

Oxybutynin hydrochloride

Paracetamol

Paraldehyde

Phosphate (enema and supplements)

Piperacillin with tazobactam (Tazocin®)

Prednisolone

Propranolol

Ranitidine

Rifampicin

Salbutamol

Salmeterol

Senna

Sodium picosulfate

Sodium valproate

Spironolactone

Surfactant: pulmonary

Tacrolimus

Tobramycin

Tranexamic acid

Trimethoprim

Vitamin D

Vitamin K (Phytomenadione)

Warfarin