Product Description
The Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia continues to be the most popular and most trusted portable drug dosing reference available! Newly updated for 2008, the Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia continues the high-quality tradition of a convenient, organized, and concise pocket manual packed with vital drug information meticulously peer-reviewed by experts and clinicians of multiple specialties. It details typical drug dosing (both FDA approved and off-label uses), available trade and generic formulations, metabolism, safety in pregnancy and lactation, relative drug pricing information, Canadian trade names, and an Herbal Alternative Therapies section. Multiple invaluable tables supplement the drug content, including opioid equivalency, emergency drug infusions, cardiac dysrhythmia protocols, pediatric drug dosing, and much more.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)

Doc's Little Helper by C. Harper (Alabama)

5 Stars
February 06, 2009
If you can read small print, this is the book to have to carry anywhere with you. It gives LOTS of helpful info that other books don't without being big, bulky, wordy, or heavy. It litterally fits in the palm of your hand or a shirt pocket. There is a "large version" that fits in a lab coat or pant's pocket, but I like the little ones best. I carry mine with me at all times at the office and when on call. Simple icons tell you about whether the drug is safe in pregnancy and during breast feeding, what the drug costs in comparison to other drugs in its class, the drug's metabolism and excretion, whether or not the drug is available in generic, and the drug's DEA status (for narcotics/anxiolytics). There are concise tables that are extremely helpful. For example there's one comparing the potency of all the steroids. There are even a few treatment charts. For example, what to use for common STDs. By far this is the book I use daily to look up drugs. I've never been able to find a drug book that could replace this essential tool. I wish they made an alphabetical version too, as the drugs are grouped by body system and then class which forces you to use the index frequently unless you just memorize where everything is. If they did make an alphabetical one, I'd carry both in my pocket and they'd both fit easily, that's how small they are. The existing index is really nice too, because it not only lists the drugs alphabetically, drug page numbers, but it even tells you to look at the top, middle, or bottom of the page so that you can pinpoint what you're looking for in a hurry. Try finding another book that does all that! Not even the PDR tops that list of info! These guys really listen to their buyers too. If they think your idea will make the book better without substantially complicating it or making it much bigger, they add it in with the next version. This is the one book that I replace yearly, it is that good. They make a lot of other books that fit their niche's perfectly (e.g. Internal Medicine and Critical Care Pocket Book, adult and peds ER, etc.)

A must have for quick reference! by S. Maurer (WI)

5 Stars
September 17, 2008
Love it. Use it all the time for quick reference!
Nice reference chart with Peds dosing for common meds in the front.

Very handy by M. Johnson

3 Stars
August 24, 2008
I'm a novice practitioner who has found this very useful in practice. Many times I come across patients who are taking medications that I am just not that familiar with yet. I am able to look up dosing, availability and whether or not a generic is available very easily. I keep this reference in my shirt pocket at all times.

every doc/med students must have by truestar (iraq)

5 Stars
August 21, 2008
This you just MUST have and we all know it. For FUN, look up, in the first few pages --'abbreviations'. You will see that K stands for excreted thru the kidneys, L for liver excretion and L and O= liver and onions. Just love that. some years have it and some don't, but I just love to ASK med students/residents what L and O excretion IS and watch the FUN. Have fun. BUY it. You need all this handy in a pocket or desk version and the price is right!

Quick and accurate by S. Sanders (Kingfisher, Oklahoma United States)

5 Stars
August 17, 2008
Classic shirt pocket book. Easy to access and has the basic info needed for the busy clinician.

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