Stoklosa and Ansel's Pharmaceutical Calculations

Description:

The gold standard on pharmaceutical calculations, this widely acclaimed text covers the full range of calculations pharmacy students must learn for successful pharmacy practice, including dosing, compounding, metric conversions and more. Thoroughly reviewed by practitioners and educators and extensively revised and updated, this 16th edition maintains high standards for both academic and basic practice requirements while offering the most comprehensive and in-depth coverage of pharmacy calculations available. A consistent, step-by-step approach makes it easy to work through the problems and gain a greater understanding of the underlying concepts, and new online access to calculation problems makes this the most engaging edition yet.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

1 Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations

2 International System of Units

3 Pharmaceutical Measurement

4 Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders

5 Density and Specific Gravity

6 Percent Strength, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration

7 Calculation of Doses: General Considerations

8 Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters

9 Calculations Involving Units of Activity 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, Rate-of-Flow Calculations

14 Assessment of Nutritional Status, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and the Food Nutrition Label

15 Altering Product Strength, Use of Stock Solutions, and Problem Solving by 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 Basic Pharmacokinetics

23 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

Index