Pharmaceutical Calculations gives you access to all the fundamental principles and basic techniques involved in applying pharmaceutical calculations in community, hospital, and industrial settings.

Features:

• Expanded sections on enteral and parenteral nutrition
• "A Case in Point" scenarios present practical case situations to demonstrate specific types of calculations, along with step-by-step solutions
• "Calculations Capsule" boxes summarize the type of calculation covered in a chapter
• Answers to practice problems are conveniently placed at the conclusion of each chapter
• "Special Considerations" sections point out the specific relevance of a calculation to a particaular dosage form, pharmaceutics application, or clinical situation
• Additional review problems at the end of the book help you strengthen and challenge your calculations skills through problem solving

Contents

1. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations
2. International System of Units
3. Pharmaceutical Measurement
4. Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders
5. Density, Specific Gravity, and Specific Volume
6. Percentage, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration
7. Calculation of Doses: General Considerations
8. Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters
9. Some Calculations Involving "Units,: "ug/mg," and Other Measures of Potency
10. Selected Clinical Calculations
11. Isotonic and Buffer Solutions
12. Electrolyte Solutions: Milliequivalents, Millimoles, and Milliosmoles
13. Intravenous Infusions, Parenteral Admixtures, and Rate-of-Flow Calculations
14. Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Body Mass Index, and the Food Nutrition Label
15. Dilution, Concentration, and Alligation
16. Reducing and Enlarging Formulas
17. Selected Calculations in Contemporary Compounding
18. Selected Calculations Involving Veterinary Pharmaceuticals
19. Selected Calculations Associated with Plant Extractives
20. Calculation of Active Drug Moiety
21. Selected Calculations Involving Radiopharmaceuticals
22. Selected Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Calculations
23. Selected Pharmacoeconomic Calculations

Appendices

• Common Systems of Measurement and Intersystem Conversion
• Graphical Methods
• Basic Statistical Concepts
• Glossary of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems

Index

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