Pharmaceutical calculations
By: Howard C. Ansel
Edition: 14th ed.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781451120363
Subjects: Drug Compounding; Drug Prescriptions; Methods; Weights and Measures; Drug Dosage Calculations; Dosage Forms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fundamentals of pharmaceutical calculations; title: International system of units; title: Pharmaceutical measurement; title: Interpretation of prescriptions and medication orders; title: Density and specific gravity; title: Percentage, ratio strength, and other expressions of concentration; title: Calculation of doses : general considerations; title: Calculation of doses : patient parameters; title: Some calculations involving units, g/mg, and other measures of potency; title: Selected clinical calculations; title: Isotonic and buffer solutions; title: Electrolyte solutions : milliequivalents, millimoles, and milliosmoles; title: Intravenous infusions, parenteral admixtures, and rate-of-flow calculations; title: Enteral and parenteral nutrition, body mass index, and the food nutrition label; title: Altering product strength, use of stock solutions, and problem-solving by alligation; title: Reducing and enlarging formulas; title: Selected calculations in contemporary compounding; title: Selected calculations involving veterinary pharmaceuticals; title: Selected calculations associated with plant extractives; title: Calculation of active drug moiety; title: Selected calculations involving radiopharmaceuticals; title: Selected bioavailability and pharmacokinetic calculations; title: Selected pharmacoeconomic calculations.