Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses contains incorrect information regarding administration of tirofiban (Aggrastat).
On pg. 846, second entry under the Implementation heading in Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses, 6/e, the entry is as follows:
"Dilute inj: withdraw and discard 100 ml from a 500 ml bag of sterile 0.9% NaCl or D5W and replace this vol with 50 ml of tirofiban inj from one vial"
This is incorrect. It should read:
"Dilute inj: withdraw and discard 100 ml from a 500 ml bag of sterile 0.9% NaCl or D5W and replace this vol with 100 ml of tirofiban inj from two vials"
This error was introduced in Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses, 3/e Update. It can also be found in the 4th, 5th and 6th editions of Mosby's Drug Guide for Nurses.
