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ISBN: 978 0 85711 248 4

Pub date: September 2017
Paperback: 210 x 148 mm, 1072 pages
Price: £57.50/ $81.00

BNF for Children (BNFC) 2017-2018 [Year 2017-

2018]
Summary
The BNF for Children (BNFC) 2017-2018 provides essential practical information to all healthcare
professionals involved in the prescribing, dispensing, monitoring and administration of medicines
to children.

Description
The BNF for Children (BNFC) 2017-2018 provides essential practical information to all healthcare
professionals involved in the prescribing, dispensing, monitoring and administration of medicines
to children. It addresses a significant knowledge gap in many areas of paediatric practice by
providing practical information on the use of medicines in children of all ages from birth to
Edited by Paediatric Formulary adolescence.
Committee Recommendations in the BNFC have been constructed on the basis of authoritative sources,
2017-2018 emerging evidence and best practice guidelines. The content has been carefully validated by a
network of paediatric experts and the process is overseen by a paediatric formulary committee.
Series  The BNF for Children 2017-2018 has been revised and revalidated to reflect changes in product
BNF for Children availability, emerging safety concerns and shifts in clinical practice.

Unique benefits
- Resource aimed specifically for use in paediatric medicine; designed to be used in specialist
paediatric and general practice settings
- Shares the familiar structure of the BNF Includes information on unlicensed use of medicines
Covers the drug treatment of rare childhood conditions, provides guidance on specialist paediatric
interventions and includes details of those medicines that are used  in children in a different
way to adults
- As a point-of-care tool it is important that it provides practitioners with the most up-to-date
information and therefore the latest edition is essential

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