Earlier edition published as Pharmaceutical calculations / Howard C. Ansel. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations -- International System of Units -- Pharmaceutical Measurement -- Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders -- Density and Specific Gravity -- Percent Strength, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration -- Calculation of Doses: General Considerations -- Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters -- Calculations Involving Units of Activity and Other Measures of Potency -- Selected Clinical Calculations -- Isotonic and Buffer Solutions -- Electrolyte Solutions: Milliequivalents, Millimoles, and Milliosmoles -- Intravenous Infusions, Parenteral Admixtures, Rate-of-Flow Calculations -- Assessment of Nutritional Status, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and the Food Nutrition Label -- Altering Product Strength, Use of Stock Solutions, and Problem Solving by Alligation -- Reducing and Enlarging Formulas -- Selected Calculations in Contemporary Compounding -- Selected Calculations Involving Veterinary Pharmaceuticals -- Selected Calculations Associated with Plant Extractives -- Calculation of Active Drug Moiety -- Selected Calculations Involving Radiopharmaceuticals -- Basic Pharmacokinetics -- Cost Differential Calculations in Drug Therapy -- Appendix A: Common Systems of Measurement and Intersystem Conversion -- Appendix B: Glossary of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems -- Appendix C: Table of Atomic Weights -- Comprehensive Review Problems.
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