Don-t Rush to Crush Handbook

Dont Rush to Crush is updated quarterly.

Included in the Pharmacy Board of Australias list of essential references for pharmacy practice, SHPAs Don't Rush to Crush is Australias essential guide to safely administering oral medicines to people with enteral feeding tubes or swallowing difficulties. When giving tablets, capsules or oral liquids to these patients, healthcare professionals need answers to these questions:

Can I crush it?

Can I disperse it?

Can I open the capsule?

Is this liquid medicine suitable for my patient?

Can I give the injection orally?

How do I give a dose that is less than a whole tablet or capsule?

With every monograph comprehensively reviewed, the latest 4th edition includes more than 580 oral medicines with 40 new medicines as well as:

new information about the thickness of oral liquid medicines and their suitability for people with swallowing difficulties more than 100 oral liquid medicines have been assessed against the International Dyshagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) framework

a new section about gastrointestinal dysfunction that provides guidance for giving medicines to people who have undergone gastrointestinal surgery, or who have altered gastrointestinal function.