Now in its Third Edition, this succinct, easy-to-use, current, and very functional handbook goes through the steps of receiving the prescription, preparing it, and completing the compound. The book provides a source for contemporary practice previously found spread out over journal articles, legal documents, standards of practice, specialty books, and textbooks.
Highlights of this edition include a more comprehensive section on sterile dosage forms and their preparation; expanded discussion of medication errors; processing tools for improving compounded preparations and reducing errors; a new chapter on systems of measurement and basic pharmaceutical calculations; and a new section on veterinary pharmacy practice. Patient cases with the sample compounded prescription orders and parenteral preparation medication orders show typical situations and problem-solving to meet special therapy and patient needs.
A back-of-book CD-ROM includes study guides, interactive self-assessment, and multimedia demonstrations of compounding procedures for key chapters. A companion website offers the CD content as well as full text online and an image bank.
New to this edition
- NEW!: Highlight color added to heighten book's visual appeal.
- NEW!: More added features on back-of-book CD-ROM.
- NEW! Creation of a separate and more comprehensive section (Part 6, "Sterile Dosage Forms and Their Preparation," composed of Chapters 32-35) on sterile dosage forms and their preparation, with emphasis on new standards and processes in USP Chapter Pharmaceutical Compounding- Sterile Preparations.
- NEW! Expanded discussion of medication errors, together with prescribing and dispensing practices that have been shown to improve patient medication safety.
- NEW! Inclusion of processing tools such as master control and compounding records, standard operating procedures, and quality control tests that are now standards of practice because they can improve our compounded preparations and reduce errors.
- NEW! Addition of a chapter (Chapter 7) containing instruction on proper use of metric (SI) symbols and units of measurement, temperature and density conversions, use of significant figures, and basic methods for pharmaceutical calculations.
- NEW! Patient cases with the sample compounded prescription orders and parenteral preparation medication orders to show typical situations and problem-solving to meet special therapy and patient needs.
- NEW! Addition of a section (Part 7) on the important specialty area of veterinary pharmacy practice.
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: Total 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
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
INDEX
Product Details
- Paperback: 760 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Third edition (January 16, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0781783968
- ISBN-13: 978-0781783965
- Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.1 inches
List Price: $78.95