Main description:

Pharmaceutics: Basic Principles and Application to Pharmacy Practice is an engaging textbook that covers all aspects of pharmaceutics with emphasis on the basic science and its application to pharmacy practice. Based on curricular guidelines mandated by the American Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), this book incorporates laboratory skills by identifying portions of each principle that can be used in a clinical setting. In this way, instructors are able to demonstrate their adherence to ACPE standards and objectives, simply by using this book. Written in a straightforward and student-friendly manner, Pharmaceutics enables students to gain the scientific foundation to understand drug physicochemical properties, practical aspects of dosage forms and drug delivery systems, and the biological applications of drug administration. Key ideas are illustrated and reinforced through chapter objectives and chapter summaries. A companion website features resources for students and instructors, including videos illustrating difficult processes and procedures as well as practice questions and answers. Instructor resources include Powerpoint slides and a full-color image bank. This book is intended for students in pharmaceutical science programs taking pharmaceutics or biopharmaceutics courses at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral level.

Contents:

Part 1: Physical Principles and Properties of Pharmaceutics
1. Introduction: Terminology, basic mathematical skills and calculations
2. Physical states, thermodynamic principles in pharmaceutics
3. Physical properties, their determination and importance in pharmaceutics
4. Equilibrium processes in Pharmaceutics
5. Kinetic processes and Pharmaceutics
6. Other processes

Part 2: Practical Aspects of Pharmaceutics
7. Drug, Dosage forms and Drug delivery systems
8. Solid Dosage forms
9. Liquid Dosage form
10. Gaseous dosage forms
11. Semi-solid dosage forms
12. Special dosage forms

Part 3: Biological Applications of Pharmaceutics
13. Routes of drug administration
14. Membrane transport and Diffusion
15. Factors affecting drug absorption and disposition in a system
16. Bioavailability and Bioequivalence