Enfermecum Pediátrica

Effective and safe drug in pediatrics Administration.

This application is intended to help professional nurses to achieve effective and safest drugs in their daily practice administration. For this reflects the classical rules for the proper administration of medications, along with a long list of tips for the administration of many drug compounds we handle every day and in different routes of administration,

both parenteral and oral and nasogastric tube.

It has placed particular emphasis on the IV in pediatric patients, where the diversity of stages of development (from infants less than one kilo to patients with adult body mass), the enormous complexity and limitations of venous capital available and nonexistence specific pediatric formulations, makes the risk of the occurrence of adverse events related to medication administration multiply.

Intended as a tool for improving the quality of care we provide; but also will facilitate the appropriate use of resources, efficiency, help minimize the risk of the occurrence of adverse events, not forgetting its usefulness for continuous education of nurses in clinical pharmacology and nurses entering for the first Once certain units.

You access each drug, with information on their route of administration, compatibilities and incompatibilities, dilutions and infusion rates and stability and conservation.

The application calculates all these variables in terms of a specific dose prescribed, which is extremely useful in pediatric patients is standard fractionated commercial preparations and preserve them for later use, making rational and safe use of resources.

The sources of information used in this application have been developed by the manufacturers laboratories and the latest available literature.

It has had the invaluable collaboration of the Clinical Management of Pharmacy of our hospital in the review of information of each of the drugs along with the nurses in the Pediatric Unit and ICU Pediatric Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba.