Pediatric Injectable Drugs: The Teddy Bear Book is one of ASHP's most recognized and trusted resources dedicated to providing guidance on the use of injectable medications in children. For more than 20 years, pharmacists, physicians, nurses, and other health professionals have relied on The Teddy Bear Book to provide the most comprehensive research-based information on administering injectable medications to children.

The Teddy Bear Book is the only reference of its kind that focuses on the unique issues that healthcare professionals face when using injectable medications in children, such as limited fluid volumes, maximum concentrations, and rates of administration.

The 12th edition features more than 4,800 references for 273 updated monographs (including 7 monographs that are new to this edition) that, like previous editions, cover the following areas:

Medication error potential

Infusion-related cautions

Dosages and dose adjustment in organ dysfunction

Additives and suitable diluents

Maximum concentrations

Preparation and delivery

Bolus, intermittent, and continuous IV administration

Other routes of administration

New monographs include:

Cysteine

Cytomegalovirus immunoglobulin

Dalbavancin

Difibrotide

Ferric derisomaltose

Ferrumoxytol

Varicella zoster immune globulin

New features added to all monographs:

Expanded monograph layout

Pronunciations

Enhanced safety information including ASHP’s Standardize 4 Safety concentration standards, and The KIDs List

AHFS® Pharmacologic-Therapeutic Classification© specific category identification