Pocket Guides

We’ve launched a new line of products, RxPocketGuides, designed to be your favorite item in your white coat pocket, next to that granola bar that you’re saving for in-between rounds when you can hide in the broom closet. They’re packed full of practice information, clinical pearls and at-a-glance information to help you in your daily challenges.

We’ve launched with our Acute Medical Emergencies pocket guide and are working on the next one now. You should join our mailing list and we'll let you know when we're finished with the next one!

 

A Clinician’s Pocket Guide to Pharmacotherapy: Pediatrics ($40)

Like our Antibiotic Pocket Guide and Acute Medical Emergencies Pocket Guide, the Pediatric Pocket Guide was primarily written by Josef Hadib Nissan, PharmD, BCPS, BCCCP, with input from everyone on the tl;dr team.

Here's a section-by-section breakdown of everything included:

  • Intro to Pediatrics (Common lab values, nutritional requirements, etc)

  • Medication Considerations in Peds (PKPD, meds to avoid, excipients to avoid, OTCs)

  • Infectious Disease (vaccines, otitis media, croup, etc)

  • Immunology (anaphylaxis, Kawasaki disease)

  • Pulmonology (Asthma, RSI)

  • Cardiology (pediatric BLS and ACLS)

  • Toxicology (antidotes for common drug intoxication)

  • Miscellaneous (ADHD, DKA, Status Epliepticus, and more)

Each section is jam-packed with not just drug information but also critical information you need to diagnose and monitor the disease. In typical tl;dr fashion, it's loaded with clinical pearls, practice wisdom, and is organized in a way that helps you find, learn, and memorize the information.

It's coil-bound and super durable. It holds up to the stresses of daily life inside your white coat pocket, and it can even survive water and coffee spills. When the hospital internet fails, or your laptop battery dies, The Pediatric Pocket Guide will still serve as the guiding light you need to take care of the little guys. 

 

A Clinician’s Pocket Guide to Pharmacotherapy Management of Acute Medical Emergencies ($40)

When you're covering the ICU, and you're faced with an acute medical emergency, you want treatment algorithms, dosing, and useful clinical practice pearls in a hurry. This Pocket Guide is 50+ pages of concise, practice-relevant, pharmacy goodness that covers the most common medical emergencies you'll encounter in critical care. Everything is organized by body system, so you can quickly find the info you need, and contains the stuff you've come to expect from tl;dr...

  • An easy-to-understand overview of pharmacologic (and non-pharmacologic) therapy

  • Lots of clinical pearls

  • Loads of other essential practice info

  • Organized in a way that lets you easily find, learn, and memorize the information.

It fits wonderfully in your white coat pocket. It's coil-bound (so it won't close on you), the pages are glossy for durability, and the plastic cover will protect it from both your pocket and repeated coffee spills.

 

A Clinician’s Pocket Guide to Pharmacotherapy: Antibiotics ($40)

Since the beginning of tl;dr, infectious disease (particularly antibiotics) has been our most requested topic. Written by our very own Josef Hadib Nissan, PharmD, BCPS, this pocket guide is basically the sum total of humanity's antibiotic knowledge distilled into 60 pages. That's maybe a slight exaggeration, of course...but we're really damn proud of this. And it fits beautifully in your white coat pocket. 

It's broken up into 3 main chapters:

  • Chapter 1: The tl;dr of Infectious Diseases

  • Chapter 2: Antimicrobial Management of Bacterial Infections 

  • Chapter 3: Antibiotic Dosing 

And then, in full tl;dr style, we get deep into the weeds to provide a comprehensive guide that doesn't exist anywhere else. Basically, we made the thing that we have always wished existed. Here's some of what's included (prepare yourself for an abnormally long bullet list):

  • Normal flora of the human body (divided by organ system) 

  • Signs/symptoms of infection and important diagnostic tools

  • Antibiotic mechanisms of action, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics

  • Antibiotic toxicities (including teratogenicity) and drug interactions

  • Oral bioavailability, systemic distribution, and IV/PO conversions

  • Beta-Lactam allergy cross-reactivity

  • Risk of C. diff infections per antibiotic

  • Renal/hepatic dose adjustments

  • Dosing for Special Populations (obesity, HD, CRRT, Peritoneal dialysis)

  • A boatload of practice-relevant clinical pearls 

The Antibiotic Pocket Guide is the perfect tool to help learn antibiotics in an efficient way. And it will be a handy reference you'll always have on the ready.