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| Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk 2025-2026: A Manual of Lactational Pharmacology, 21st Edition |
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Doody's Core Title (2025 Edition)
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2.4
(Nursing - Perinatal)
Essential Purchase Title
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ISBN: 978-0-8261-0020-7,
686 pages,
Soft Cover
ISBN-10: 0-8261-0020-1 |
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| Copyright: |
2025 |
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| Edition: |
21st |
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| Author: |
Hale, Thomas W., PhD; Krutsch, Kaytlin, PhD, PharmD |
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Specialties:
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Pharmacology
, Neonatology
, Obstetrics & Gynecology
, Maternal/Child
, Perinatal
, Pharmacology |
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| Publisher: |
Springer Publishing Company |
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902 Carnegie Center |
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Suite 140 |
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Princeton, NJ 08540 |
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UNITED STATES |
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P: 212-431-4370
F: cs@springerpub.com |
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http://www.springerpub.com |
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| List Price: |
$85.00 |
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At A Glance
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The Essential Resource for Medication Safety During Lactation Hale's Medications and Mothers' Milk is the definitive guide for healthcare professionals ensuring safe and informed medication choices for breastfeeding parents. Trusted by experts worldwide, this comprehensive, evidence-based reference includes detailed safety profiles for over 1,000 medications, vaccines, and supplements -- empowering clinicians to make confident, patient-centered recommendations. Updated with the latest safety data and practical clinical insights, this invaluable resource helps manage a wide range of medications from common prescriptions to more specialized treatments. Written by renowned pharmacologists Drs. Thomas W. Hale and Kaytlin Krutsch, this book is essential for any healthcare provider who works with lactating individuals. Available in print or as an easy-to-use app through HalesMeds, this indispensable guide can be purchased individually or via group accounts, offering significant savings for larger practices, hospitals, or institutions. Click here to shop all format options for Hale?s and register for our 4/30 LIVE AUTHOR Q&A session today!
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Reviewer:
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Rebeca Barroso,
DNP, MSN
(Saint Catherine University)
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? |
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If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? |
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Reviewer:
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Rebeca Barroso,
DNP, MSN
(Saint Catherine University)
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Description
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| This updated drug reference book is the gold standard on the safe use of medications for breastfeeding mothers. The most current edition, updating the 2023 edition, contains the latest available evidence and provides updated infant-risk information on over 10,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications, including herbal medicines, in conjunction with associated diseases and syndromes. |
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Purpose
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| The purpose of this evidence-based book is to serve as the definitive go-to pharmacological safety reference source for consultants, clinicians, counselors, and educators providing care to breastfeeding mothers and their infants. |
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Audience
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| The intended audience is lactation consultants, but the content is also of interest to nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives, and midwifery students and faculty. |
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Features
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| Central to the book's intent is to provide the necessary information to determine the risk to the infant from maternal medication use. The book begins with a preface that introduces concepts and nomenclature used throughout the book. A subsequent How to Use This Book section provides explanations on the book's framework in providing the generic and trade names for each drug, including trade names from other parts of the world. The book includes a complete listing of Dr. Hale's Lactation Risk Categories (LRCs) and the specifics of the nomenclature used throughout the book, including not widely known acronyms. The drugs are alphabetically listed thereafter using different font sizes, colors, and background shading to assist in locating, reading, and absorbing the provided content. Each drug is framed within its category or "family of drugs" to provide a general pharmacological mechanism of action and most probable drug uses. For each medication under consideration, adult concerns, adult dose, pediatric concerns, infant monitoring, alternatives, and references are provided. |
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Assessment
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| Dr. Hale's work on behalf of advancing knowledge on the transfer of medications into breastmilk has been continuous since the late 1980s. This book series continues to evolve, with updated editions every two years, offering information on the newest drugs, medication information with the latest data, and Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and LRC updates. There is no comparable one-stop, evidence-based, comprehensive source of lactational pharmacology for professionals educating, counseling, and advising breastfeeding mothers. |
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