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Main description:
Now in its Third Edition, this succinct, easy-to-use, current, and very functional handbook goes through the steps of receiving the prescription, preparing it, and completing the compound. The book provides a source for contemporary practice previously found spread out over journal articles, legal documents, standards of practice, specialty books, and textbooks.
Highlights of this edition include a more comprehensive section on sterile dosage forms and their preparation; expanded discussion of medication errors; processing tools for improving compounded preparations and reducing errors; a new chapter on systems of measurement and basic pharmaceutical calculations; and a new section on veterinary pharmacy practice. Patient cases with the sample compounded prescription orders and parenteral preparation medication orders show typical situations and problem-solving to meet special therapy and patient needs.
A back-of-book CD-ROM includes study guides, interactive self-assessment, and multimedia demonstrations of compounding procedures for key chapters.
A companion website offers the CD content as well as full text online and an image bank.
Contents:
PART 1: PROCESSING THE PRESCRIPTION
- CHAPTER 1: Prescription and Medication Drug Orders
- CHAPTER 2: Labeling Prescriptions and Medications
- CHAPTER 3: Controlled Substances
- CHAPTER 4: Expiration and Beyond-Use Dating
- CHAPTER 5: Drug Utilization Review and Medication-Use Evaluation
- CHAPTER 6: Patient Counseling
PART 2: CALCULATIONS
- CHAPTER 7: Systems of Measurement and Introduction to Pharmaceutical
Calculations - CHAPTER 8: Quantity and Concentration Expressions and Calculations
- CHAPTER 9: Evaluating Dosage Regimens
- CHAPTER 10: Aliquot Calculations
- CHAPTER 11: Isotonicity Calculations
PART 3: COMPOUNDING DRUG PREPARATIONS
- CHAPTER 12: General Guidelines for Preparing Compounded Drug Preparations
- CHAPTER 13: Selection, Storage, and Handling of Compounding Equipment and
Ingredients - CHAPTER 14: Selection and Use of Weighing and Measuring Equipment
PART 4: PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENTS
- CHAPTER 15: Pharmaceutical Solvents and Solubilizing Agents
- CHAPTER 16: Antimicrobial Preservatives
- CHAPTER 17: Antioxidants
- CHAPTER 18: Buffers and pH Adjusting Agents
- CHAPTER 19: Viscosity-Inducing Agents
- CHAPTER 20: Surfactants and Emulsifying Agents
- CHAPTER 21: Colors, Flavors, Sweeteners, and Scents
- CHAPTER 22: Vehicles for Liquid Preparations
- CHAPTER 23: Ointment Bases
- CHAPTER 24: Suppository Bases
PART 5: NONSTERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION
- CHAPTER 25: Powders
- CHAPTER 26: Capsules, Lozenges, and Other Solid Oral Dosage Forms
- CHAPTER 27: Solutions
- CHAPTER 28: Suspensions
- CHAPTER 29: Liquid Emulsions
- CHAPTER 30: Semisolids: Ointments, Creams, Gels, Pastes, and Collodions
- CHAPTER 31: Suppositories
PART 6: STERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION
- CHAPTER 32: General Principles of Sterile Dosage Form Preparation
- CHAPTER 33: Ophthalmic, Nasal, Inhalation, and Irrigation Solutions
- CHAPTER 34: Parenteral Preparations
- CHAPTER 35: Total Parenteral Nutrition
PART 7: VETERINARY PHARMACY
- CHAPTER 36: Veterinary Pharmacy Practice
PART 8: COMPATIBILITY AND STABILITY
- CHAPTER 37: Compatibility and Stability of Drug Products and Preparations
APPENDICES
- APPENDIX A: Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions and
Medication Orders - APPENDIX B: Nomograms for Determination of Body Surface Area from Height and Weight
- APPENDIX C: National Center for Health Statistics Growth Charts
- APPENDIX D: Isotonicity Values
INDEX
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Publication date: January, 2009
Pages: 760
Weight: 3g
Availability: Not available (reason unspecified)
Subcategories: Pharmacology
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