Pediatric Injectable Drugs: The Teddy Bear Book, 12th Edition Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9781585287185 ISBN-10: 1585287180 Copyright: 2025 Edition: 12th Author: Phelps, Stephanie J., Lee, Kelly R., Hagemann, Tracy M., Doody's Expert Review    Score: 100 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Judith Klevan,  B.A Biology B.S. Pharmacy  (Einstein Medical Center) Description This book, more commonly known as the Teddy Bear book, can be used as a sole resource for information on the safe and effective use of injectable medications in neonates, infants, children, and adolescents. The book covers each drug individually in alphabetical order. The previous edition was published in 2018. Purpose The aim of this book is to provide a singular source of information on the safe and effective use of parenteral medications in the pediatric population. The book's excellent organization is obvious from the introduction, the ease of deriving information sought from this book, and the practicality for medical providers who use injectable medications in the pediatric patient population. These goals are the highest goals of the practice of medicine as neonates, newborns, infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents are the most fragile of patient populations and the safe use of injectable medication in this population can be lifesaving and the unsafe use can be deadly. This book is a necessary book and meets its objectives very well. It provides needed information on the use of the medication, dosing, preparation, and administration as well as what to watch out for in a way that makes the book easy and practical to use. By providing the same information, in the same order, for every pediatric injectable drug in alphabetical order, this book provides needed information in an easy-to-use format. Audience This book is an excellent resource for hospital pharmacy staff members for dosing and preparation of medications and for nurses on how to administer and monitor patients during medication administration as well as what to do in the case of extravasation. It will be useful for doctors, residents, and medical students in providing them with information on the use of medications, dosing, reasons for dose adjustments and what those dose adjustments should be, as well as adverse drug events, drug interactions, and monitoring parameters for the drugs. The authors of this book are credible authorities on the subject based on their education and job positions. Features The Teddy Bear book gives complete, accurate, organized, and readily retrievable information on the use of injectable drugs in pediatric patient populations. The book is well organized by alphabetical order and presents each monograph in the exact same manner for each medication. The writing is easy to understand, and information is very practical in terms of what practitioners need to know and the steps needed in order to take a parenteral drug from the manufacturer's packaging and put the medication into the pediatric patient. Each individual drug is covered by breaking down the information into a section on the pronunciation, different names of the drug, therapeutic and pharmacologic categories, contraindications and warnings, dosages of the drug for various age groups and various conditions the drug is used for, the maximum dose of the drug, conditions requiring dose adjustments, drug interactions, preparation and compatibility of the medication, infusion-related cautions, administration, adverse drug effects, monitoring parameters for the drug, and additional comments. The book covers special safety and dosing issues with each medication. The book's appendix can help find patients' BMIs for additives and antibiotic considerations if needed, extravasation treatments for several drugs, an acetaminophen nomogram, and an index. This book isn't lacking anything, it does exactly what it says it will do and has exactly what you expect it to contain if you have any experience with it. The book would benefit from illustrations, but this edition of the book has added information about each drug and 41 new drugs added since its last edition. Due to the large size of this book, adding illustrations would likely only make the book bigger, not better. The size of the book is a shortcoming, it is exceptionally large and impractical to carry everywhere it may be needed. Assessment As a pharmacist that worked in a pediatric hospital in patient pharmacy, the Teddy Bear Book was my best, most frequently used, reliable source of information. There were many times the book provided needed information from a source I could trust to be accurate, precise, organized, and easily retrievable. This book is an excellent source of information when it comes to dosing, preparing, admixing, and administration of parenteral pediatric medication. The material is well organized, and it is easy to find data when you need specific pieces of information. In comparison to Elsevier's 2025 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals, 41st Edition, Collins (Elsevier, 2025), this book is geared strictly for pediatric doses while the other book provides similar information but mostly for adults. This book will need to be updated as new drugs are release and as more information becomes available about the pediatric use of injectable medications. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 10 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 5 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? N/A 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. N/A 1-5 Are there sufficient references? 5 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. 5 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 5 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 10 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? 10 ©2025 Doody Enterprises, Inc.