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A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice
This edition covers all practical aspects of pharmacy dispensing reading and interpreting prescription and medication orders, labeling dispensed products, handling products, patient consultation and drug utilization review, and general pharmaceutical calculations. A major emphasis of the text is pharmaceutical compounding including dosage forms and their usage instructions complete with descriptions at ingredients, calculations, procedures, compatibility and stability evaluations, beyond-use date determinations, quality control procedures, and patient consultations. The book divided 6 part. Part 1 about processing the prescription. Part 2 about calculations. Part 3 about compounding drug products. Part 4 about pharmaceutical necessities. Part 5 about dosage forms and their preparation. Part 6 about compatibility and stability.
CONTENTS
PART 1 PROCESSING THE PRESCRIPTION 1
CHAPTER 1 Prescription and medication drug orders 2
CHAPTER 2 labeling prescription and medications 16
CHAPTER 3 Controled subtances 26
CHAPTER 4 Expiration and beyond-use dating 37
CHAPTER 5 Drug utilization review and medication-use evaluation 45
CHAPTER 6 Patient counseling 53
PART 2 CALCULATIONS 67
CHAPTER 7 Systems of measurement and introduction to pharmaceutical calculations 68
CHAPTER 8 Quantity and concentration expressions and calculations 84
CHAPTER 9 Evaluating dosage regimens 109
CHAPTER 10 Aliquot calculations 119
CHAPTER 11 Isotonicity calculations 131
PART 3 COMPOUNDING DRUG PREPARATIONS 139
CHAPTER 12 General guidelines for preparing compounded drug preparations 140
CHAPTER 13 Selection, storage, and handlung of compounding equipment and ingredients 156
CHAPTER 14 Selection and use of weighing and measuring equipment 173
PART 4 PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENTS 189
CHAPTER 15 Pharmaceutical solvents and solubilizing agents 190
CHAPTER 16 Antimicrobial preservatives 203
CHAPTER 17 Antioxidants 216
CHAPTER 18 Buffers and pH adjusting agents 224
CHAPTER 19 Viscosity-inducing agents 231
CHAPTER 20 Surfactants and emulsifying agents 251
CHAPTER 21 Colors, flavors, sweeteners, and scents 257
CHAPTER 22 Vehicles for liquid preparations 267
CHAPTER 23 Ointment bases 277
CHAPTER 24 Suppositiry bases 291
PART 5 NONSTERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION 298
CHAPTER 25 Powders 299
CHAPTER 26 Capsules, lozenges, and other solid oral dosage forms 332
CHAPTER 27 Solutions 379
CHAPTER 28 Suspensions 421
CHAPTER 29 Liquid emulsions 452
CHAPTER 30 semisolids: ointments, cream, gels, pastes, and collodions 473
CHAPTER 31 Suppositories 517
PART 6 STERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION 545
cHAPTER 32 General principles of sterile dosage form preparation 546
CHAPTER 33 Opthalmic, nasal, inhalation, and irrigation solutions 563
CHAPTER 34 Parenteral preparations 600
CHAPTER 35 Total parenteral nutrition 630
PART 7 VETERINARY PHARMACY 647
CHAPTER 36 Veterinary pharmcay practice 648
PART 8 COMPATIBILITY AND STABILITY 671
CHAPTER 37 Compatibility and stability of drug products and preparations 672
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