Prescribing Medicines for Children

Prescribing for children is a particularly challenging discipline due to specific issues of drug absorption, metabolism, distribution and excretion. This book is an international title that provides guidance on the principles behind optimal neonatal and paediatric prescribing.

Section A provides concise educational material relating to paediatric pharmacology and optimising how medicines are developed and prescribed for children.

Section B considers key clinical prescribing areas and can be used as a quick reference guide. Each chapter is focused on the key issues in prescribing for a respective clinical specialty or context.

Prescribing Medicines for Children is essential reading for all those who are involved in prescribing medicines to neonates and children. This includes undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacists, nurses, paediatricians and primary care physicians, academic scientists, and those working in the pharmaceutical industry and drug regulation.