Chapter 1 Basic Arithmetic Skills
The things you don’t want to ask about but need to know.
Chapter 2 Decimals and Other Fractions
How to deal with the bits and pieces.
Chapter 3 SI Units
How’s your French? You only need one phrase ‘Système International d’Unités’.
Chapter 4 Drug calculations
Pills, potions and pinpricks.
Chapter 5 Drug concentrations
The jokers in the pack.
Chapter 6 Per cent, percentage and ratios
Hundreds and thousands and much more.
Chapter 7 Intravenous fluid and drug administration
Drips, drops and devices.
Chapter 8 Common Clinical Measurements
Charting, charting and more charting.
Chapter 9 Physiological Measurements
Blood, but no sweat and tears.
Chapter 10 Statistics and reading research articles
No ostriches here please.
Appendices
I Roman numerals and their Arabic equivalent
II Multiples and divisions of SI units
III Important elements in the body. Isotopes and Avogadro’s constant.
IV Physiological reference values for adults
V Abbreviations used in prescribing
VI & VII Peak flow measurements
VIII Body Mass Index and Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST)
IX Nomogram for calculating body surface area
X Weight conversion chart
XI Summary of methods for drug calculations

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