Pharmaceutical calculations /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Wolters Kluwer,
©2017
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| Edition: | 15th edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.