Pharmaceutical Calculations 5th Edition u2013 Ebook PDF Version – Digital Instant Dowload.
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- ISBN-10 : 0781731720
- ISBN-13 : 978-0781731720
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This Eleventh Edition text offers a comprehensive presentation of the fundamental principles and basic techniques involved in applying pharmaceutical calculations in community, hospital and industrial settings. New chapters cover contemporary compounding, calculations involving veterinary pharmaceuticals, body mass index and the nutrition label calculations associated with plant extractives, and a miscellaneous chapter combining relevant calculation topics from formerly separate appendices. Important changes to existing chapters include the incorporation of dosing considerations in chemotherapy and heparin dosing; calculations relevant to body electrolyte and water requirements; the quantitative determination of active drug moiety when present in chemically combined forms; and, a revised treatment of aliquot measuring. Includes over 100 new practice problems.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1 Review of Basic Mathematical Principles1
Chapter 2 Systems of Measurement 31
Chapter 3 Prescriptions and Medication Orders 54
Chapter 4 Weighing and Measuring in Pharmacy Practice 103
Chapter 5 Dosage Calculations 160
Chapter 6 Drug Concentration Expressions 203
Chapter 7 Dilution and Concentration 257
Chapter 8 Isotonicity 310
Chapter 9 Dosage Calculations of Electrolytes 340
Chapter 10 Calculations for Injectable Medications And Sterile Fluids 378
Chapter 11 Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition 413
Chapter 12 Miscellaneous Practical Calculations in Contemporary Compounding 458