, Dosage Calculations
A Multi-Method Approach
Second Edition
Anthony Patrick Giangrasso, PhD
Professor of Mathematics
LaGuardia Community College
Long Island City, NY
Dolores Donahue Shrimpton, MA, RN
Professor Emerita of Nursing
Department of Nursing
Kingsborough Community College
Brooklyn, NY
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, Vice President, Health Science: Julie Levin Alexander Executive Product Marketing Manager: Christopher
Nursing Director: Katrin Beacom Barry
Executive Portfolio Manager: Lisa Rahn Senior Field Marketing Manager: Brittany Hammond
Content Producer: Michael Giacobbe Vice President, Production: Paul DeLuca
Portfolio Management Assistant: Taylor Scuglik Project Manager: Prathiba Rajagopal, SPi Global
Director of Marketing: David Gesell Manufacturing Manager: Maura Zaldivar-Garcia
Notice: Care has been taken to confirm the accuracy of information presented in this book. The authors, editors,
and the publisher, however, cannot accept any responsibility for errors or omissions or for consequences
from application of the information in this book and make no warranty, express or implied, with respect to its
contents. The authors and publisher have exerted every effort to ensure that drug selections and dosages set
forth in this text are in accord with current recommendations and practice at time of publication. However, in
view of ongoing research, changes in government regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to
drug therapy and drug reactions, the reader is urged to check the package inserts of all drugs for any change
in indications of dosage and for added warnings and precautions. This is particularly important when the
recommended agent is a new and/or infrequently employed drug.
Copyright © 2018 by Pearson All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This
publication is protected by copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any
prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work,
please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc., Permissions Department, 221 River Street, Hoboken,
New Jersey 07030.
Pearson® is a registered trademark of Pearson plc
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Giangrasso, Anthony Patrick, author. | Shrimpton, Dolores M., author.
Title: Dosage calculations : a multi-method approach / Anthony Patrick
Giangrasso, Dolores Donahue Shrimpton.
Description: Second edition. | New York, NY : Pearson, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017026617| ISBN 9780134624679 | ISBN 013462467X
Subjects: | MESH: Drug Dosage Calculations | Pharmaceutical
Preparations–administration & dosage | Nurses’ Instruction | Problems and
Exercises
Classification: LCC RS57 | NLM QV 18.2 | DDC 615.1/9–dc23 LC record available
at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026617
1 17
ISBN 10: 0-13-462467-X
www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-13-462467-9
A01_GIAN4679_02_SE_FM.indd 2 7/21/17 7:19
, About the Authors
Anthony Giangrasso was born and raised in Maspeth, New York. He attended Rice
High School on a scholarship and in his senior year was named in an annual citywide
contest by the New York Journal-American newspaper as New York City's most out-
standing high school scholar-athlete. He was also awarded a full-tuition scholarship to
Iona College, from which he obtained a BA in mathematics, magna cum laude, ranking
sixth in his graduating class of approximately 600 students.
Anthony began his teaching career as a fifth-grade teacher in Manhattan, as a
member of the Christian Brothers of Ireland, and taught high school mathematics and
physics in Harlem and Newark, New Jersey. He holds an MS and PhD from New York
University and has taught at all levels from elementary through graduate school. He is
currently teaching at Adelphi University and LaGuardia Community College, where
he was chairman of the mathematics department. He has authored nine college text-
books through twenty-six editions.
Anthony's community service has included membership on the boards of direc
tors of the Polish-American Museum Foundation, Catholic Adoptive Parents Association,
and Family Focus Adoptive Services. He was the founding Chairman of the Board of the
Italian-American Legal Defense and Higher Education Fund, Inc., and the president of
the Italian-American Faculty Association of the City University of New York—in the lat-
ter capacity he signed the first discrimination complaint filed with the United States
Department of Labor in which Italian-Americans were recognized as a “class.” This
class-action complaint eventually resulted in the threat of twenty separate lawsuits by
the U.S. Department of Labor individually against each of the branches of CUNY. The
complaint was later dropped as part of a settlement of a separate suit in which CUNY
was forced to defend itself in federal court before Judge Constance Baker Motley where
Anthony was the first witness. As part of the ensuing settlement of that case, CUNY
was ordered to pay all legal fees and correct some past injustices.
He and his wife, Susan, are proud parents of Anthony, Michael, and Jennifer—and
grandparents of Calvin, Jackson, Isabel, and Emilia. He enjoys tennis and twice has been
ranked #1 for his age group in the Eastern Section by the United States Tennis Association.
Dedication
For my lovely wife, Susan. Thanks for your love and support for over four decades.
—Anthony Giangrasso
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A Multi-Method Approach
Second Edition
Anthony Patrick Giangrasso, PhD
Professor of Mathematics
LaGuardia Community College
Long Island City, NY
Dolores Donahue Shrimpton, MA, RN
Professor Emerita of Nursing
Department of Nursing
Kingsborough Community College
Brooklyn, NY
A01_GIAN4679_02_SE_FM.indd 1 7/21/17 7:19
, Vice President, Health Science: Julie Levin Alexander Executive Product Marketing Manager: Christopher
Nursing Director: Katrin Beacom Barry
Executive Portfolio Manager: Lisa Rahn Senior Field Marketing Manager: Brittany Hammond
Content Producer: Michael Giacobbe Vice President, Production: Paul DeLuca
Portfolio Management Assistant: Taylor Scuglik Project Manager: Prathiba Rajagopal, SPi Global
Director of Marketing: David Gesell Manufacturing Manager: Maura Zaldivar-Garcia
Notice: Care has been taken to confirm the accuracy of information presented in this book. The authors, editors,
and the publisher, however, cannot accept any responsibility for errors or omissions or for consequences
from application of the information in this book and make no warranty, express or implied, with respect to its
contents. The authors and publisher have exerted every effort to ensure that drug selections and dosages set
forth in this text are in accord with current recommendations and practice at time of publication. However, in
view of ongoing research, changes in government regulations, and the constant flow of information relating to
drug therapy and drug reactions, the reader is urged to check the package inserts of all drugs for any change
in indications of dosage and for added warnings and precautions. This is particularly important when the
recommended agent is a new and/or infrequently employed drug.
Copyright © 2018 by Pearson All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. This
publication is protected by copyright and permission should be obtained from the publisher prior to any
prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise. To obtain permission(s) to use material from this work,
please submit a written request to Pearson Education, Inc., Permissions Department, 221 River Street, Hoboken,
New Jersey 07030.
Pearson® is a registered trademark of Pearson plc
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Giangrasso, Anthony Patrick, author. | Shrimpton, Dolores M., author.
Title: Dosage calculations : a multi-method approach / Anthony Patrick
Giangrasso, Dolores Donahue Shrimpton.
Description: Second edition. | New York, NY : Pearson, 2017. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017026617| ISBN 9780134624679 | ISBN 013462467X
Subjects: | MESH: Drug Dosage Calculations | Pharmaceutical
Preparations–administration & dosage | Nurses’ Instruction | Problems and
Exercises
Classification: LCC RS57 | NLM QV 18.2 | DDC 615.1/9–dc23 LC record available
at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017026617
1 17
ISBN 10: 0-13-462467-X
www.pearsonhighered.com ISBN 13: 978-0-13-462467-9
A01_GIAN4679_02_SE_FM.indd 2 7/21/17 7:19
, About the Authors
Anthony Giangrasso was born and raised in Maspeth, New York. He attended Rice
High School on a scholarship and in his senior year was named in an annual citywide
contest by the New York Journal-American newspaper as New York City's most out-
standing high school scholar-athlete. He was also awarded a full-tuition scholarship to
Iona College, from which he obtained a BA in mathematics, magna cum laude, ranking
sixth in his graduating class of approximately 600 students.
Anthony began his teaching career as a fifth-grade teacher in Manhattan, as a
member of the Christian Brothers of Ireland, and taught high school mathematics and
physics in Harlem and Newark, New Jersey. He holds an MS and PhD from New York
University and has taught at all levels from elementary through graduate school. He is
currently teaching at Adelphi University and LaGuardia Community College, where
he was chairman of the mathematics department. He has authored nine college text-
books through twenty-six editions.
Anthony's community service has included membership on the boards of direc
tors of the Polish-American Museum Foundation, Catholic Adoptive Parents Association,
and Family Focus Adoptive Services. He was the founding Chairman of the Board of the
Italian-American Legal Defense and Higher Education Fund, Inc., and the president of
the Italian-American Faculty Association of the City University of New York—in the lat-
ter capacity he signed the first discrimination complaint filed with the United States
Department of Labor in which Italian-Americans were recognized as a “class.” This
class-action complaint eventually resulted in the threat of twenty separate lawsuits by
the U.S. Department of Labor individually against each of the branches of CUNY. The
complaint was later dropped as part of a settlement of a separate suit in which CUNY
was forced to defend itself in federal court before Judge Constance Baker Motley where
Anthony was the first witness. As part of the ensuing settlement of that case, CUNY
was ordered to pay all legal fees and correct some past injustices.
He and his wife, Susan, are proud parents of Anthony, Michael, and Jennifer—and
grandparents of Calvin, Jackson, Isabel, and Emilia. He enjoys tennis and twice has been
ranked #1 for his age group in the Eastern Section by the United States Tennis Association.
Dedication
For my lovely wife, Susan. Thanks for your love and support for over four decades.
—Anthony Giangrasso
iii
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