Product DescriptionOregon Health Sciences Univ., Portland. Annual pocket guide offers information on antimicrobial therapy. Presents data in chart form on antibiotic dosage, side effects, antiviral agents. and more. For pharmacists. Softcover, wire-spiral edition also available. NOTE: DOSAGE ERRORS DATED 4/11/07 ON PUBLISHERS WEBSITE WWW.SANFORDGUIDE.COM, UNDER CONTENT RELATED NOTICES.
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Rating: - Great resource, but get the bigger size to save your eyes!
this is a must have for MDs and pharmacists to treat any sort of infection. It has suggested treatments, doses, and durations. In addition, it has a section where microbes that are relatively uncommon and the drugs that treat them. It has renal dosages and common and severe side effects for the drugs. It also has a nice resources page for various items, including drugs that may prolong the QT interval, the CDC, AIDS, etc. I recommend getting the larger version, as sometimes I cannot see the small ... Read More
Rating: - beware of microscopic print
excellent reference book--BUT the copy i received is in microscopic print and therefore useless to me--I must have missed this fact in ordering--in the future MICROSCOPIIC print should be soelled out
Rating: - Sanford Antimicrobial guide 2008
This product is an invaluable resource for the medical clinician on the go. it is concise, complete, and invaluable for a patient care professional for selecting and assessing antimicrobial care for an ill patient. I refer to it frequently and would be lost without it while on duty in the hospital setting.
Rating: - comprehensive but hard to read
If you are thinking about getting this book, I suggest the PDA version, because this book is designed to be a "pocket book", so it's small. The vast amount of information therefore has to be somehow packed into this book. The print is very small, I don't think any one can read this book from more than 2 inches away. The information is great, though.
Rating: - sanford guide to antimicrobialtherapy
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I would like to say that this is a great book, yes its true.
The only prob is that you got to know what you're doing...and you got to know this book well...otherwise you're not going to come up with anything...
IF you pick up this book thinking that you're going to come up with the greatest antibiotic combinations you're wrong. You're just going to sit it there somewhere. and look elsewhere.
You need to know how to read it, as it is full of acronyms for lots of antibiotics; ... Read More
- Great resource, but get the bigger size to save your eyes!
- beware of microscopic print
