A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice and Compounding

Description:

A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice and Compounding is your hands-on, step-by-step guide to receiving and filling prescription drug orders as well as a comprehensive look at the preparation of sterile and non-sterile extemporaneously compounded preparations.

Table of Contents:

PART 1: PROCESSING THE PRESCRIPTION

CHAPTER 1: Prescription and Medication Drug Orders

CHAPTER 2: Labeling Prescriptions and Medications

CHAPTER 3: Controlled Substances

CHAPTER 4: Expiration and Beyond-Use Dating

CHAPTER 5: Drug Utilization Review and Medication-Use Evaluation

CHAPTER 6: Patient Counseling

PART 2: CALCULATIONS

CHAPTER 7: Systems of Measurement and Introduction to Pharmaceutical Calculations

CHAPTER 8: Quantity and Concentration Expressions and Calculations

CHAPTER 9: Evaluating Dosage Regimens

CHAPTER 10: Aliquot Calculations

CHAPTER 11: Isotonicity Calculations

PART 3: COMPOUNDING DRUG PREPARATIONS

CHAPTER 12: General Guidelines for Preparing Compounded Drug Preparations

CHAPTER 13: Selection, Storage, and Handling of Compounding Equipment and Ingredients

CHAPTER 14: Selection and Use of Weighing and Measuring Equipment

PART 4: PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENTS

CHAPTER 15: Pharmaceutical Solvents and Solubilizing Agents

CHAPTER 16: Antimicrobial Preservatives

CHAPTER 17: Antioxidants

CHAPTER 18: Buffers and pH Adjusting Agents

CHAPTER 19: Viscosity-Inducing Agents

CHAPTER 20: Surfactants and Emulsifying Agents

CHAPTER 21: Colors, Flavors, Sweeteners, and Scents

CHAPTER 22: Vehicles for Liquid Preparations

CHAPTER 23: Ointment Bases

CHAPTER 24: Suppository Bases

PART 5: NONSTERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION

CHAPTER 25: Powders

CHAPTER 26: Capsules, Lozenges, and Other Solid Oral Dosage Forms

CHAPTER 27: Solutions

CHAPTER 28: Suspensions

CHAPTER 29: Liquid Emulsions

CHAPTER 30: Semisolids: Ointments, Creams, Gels, Pastes, and Collodions

CHAPTER 31: Suppositories

PART 6: STERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION

CHAPTER 32: General Principles of Sterile Dosage Form Preparation

CHAPTER 33: Ophthalmic, Nasal, Inhalation, and Irrigation Solutions

CHAPTER 34: Parenteral Preparations

CHAPTER 35: Parenteral Nutrition

PART 7: VETERINARY PHARMACY

CHAPTER 36: Veterinary Pharmacy Practice

PART 8: COMPATIBILITY AND STABILITY

CHAPTER 37: Compatibility and Stability of Drug Products and Preparations Dispensed by the Pharmacist

APPENDICES

APPENDIX A: Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions and Medication Orders

APPENDIX B: Nomograms for Determination of Body Surface Area from Height and Weight

APPENDIX C: National Center for Health Statistics Growth Charts

APPENDIX D: Isotonicity Values

APPENDIX E: Code of Ethics for Pharmacists

INDEX