Pharmaceutical Calculations

Includes Bibliographical references and Index

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, and 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
Selected bioavailability and pharmacokinetic calculations
Cost differential calculations in drug therapy

Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with the focus directed toward providing basic pharmaceutical calculations along with supporting explanations of the pharmaceutical or clinical purpose underpinning each type of calculation. Hundreds of new problems have been added to include many current products encountered in pharmacy practice...New to this edition are Authors' Extra Points that provide brief explanations of select underlying subjects, as: pharmacopeias, electronic prescriptions, drug names, and the regulation of pharmacy compounding. A section on equianalgesic dosing for narcotic analgesics has been added to Chapter 10 along with dosing tables related to the subject." -- Preface