IONIC MEDICATION

Ionic Medication

Ionic Medication

This small volume has been written to supply a demand for a book on the subject, and the exhaustion of the 1st edition within six months is the hpst testimonial to the success of this object. Beyond some re-arrangement of the first chapter and some short additional section, the book is unaltered. It is a concise and handy guide to a subject, which, as the author points out in his preface, is on...

Ionic Radius and Ionic Efficiency

1. It has been shown in preceding papers that when we separate solutions of electrolytes from pure water by collodion membranes the ions with the same sign of charge as the membrane increase while the ions with the opposite sign of charge diminish the rate of diffusion of water from the side of pure water to the side of solution; and that the accelerating and depressing effects of these ions on...

Ionic gradients, membrane potential and ionic currents

The neuronal plasma membrane delimits the whole neuron, cell body, dendrites, dendritic spines, axon and axon terminals. It is a barrier between the intracellular and extracellular environments. The general structure of the neuronal plasma membrane is similar to that of other plasma membranes. It is made up of proteins inserted in a lipid bilayer, forming as a whole a ‘fl uid mosaic’ ( Figure 3...

Introduction to medication errors and medication safety

A medication safety incident is defined by the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) as: ‘any unintended or unexpected incident which could have or did lead to harm for one or more patients’ (NPSA, 2007:9). These incidents can occur at each stage of the process involved in the delivery of medicines to patients, i.e. prescribing (including transcribing or physician ordering), dispensing, prepara...