TY - BOOK AU - Ansel,Howard C. AU - Stockton,Shelly J. TI - Pharmaceutical Calculations SN - 9781496339621 AV - RS57.A57 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Wolters Kluwer KW - Drug Dosage Calculations KW - Drugs Dosage KW - Pharmaceutical Preparations administration & dosage N1 - Includes Bibliographical references and Index; 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 N2 - Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with the focus directed toward providing basic pharmaceutical calculations along with supporting explanations of the pharmaceutical or clinical purpose underpinning each type of calculation. Hundreds of new problems have been added to include many current products encountered in pharmacy practice...New to this edition are Authors' Extra Points that provide brief explanations of select underlying subjects, as: pharmacopeias, electronic prescriptions, drug names, and the regulation of pharmacy compounding. A section on equianalgesic dosing for narcotic analgesics has been added to Chapter 10 along with dosing tables related to the subject." -- Preface ER -