The Thirteenth Edition of Pharmaceutical Calculations represents a thorough update of this textbook, which for over six decades has met the needs of students in this subject area. This edition's Introduction presents a stepwise approach in solving calculations problems. Each chapter of this edition includes learning objectives that direct the student's focus and provide a basis for self-assessment following completion. Coverage includes new material in areas such as e-prescriptions, medication orders in nursing homes, hospice care, patient self-administration of analgesia, intravenous infusion rate calculations for the critical care patient, and patient conversions to alternative treatment plans.
A companion Website includes the fully searchable text and an interactive quiz bank with more pharmaceutical calculation review problems.
New to this edition
- NEW! Content in such areas as:
- E-prescriptions
- medication orders in nursing homes
- hospice-care
- patient self-administration of analgesia
- intravenous infusion rate calculations for the critical care patient
- patient conversions to alternative treatment plans
- other new and expanded areas
- NEW!: Introductory chapter on the stepwise-working of pharmaceutical calculations problems.
Contents
- Introduction Scope of Pharmaceutical Calculations
- 1 Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations
- 2 International System of Units
- 3 Pharmaceutical Measurement
- 4 Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders
- 5 Density, Specific Gravity, and Specific Volume
- 6 Percentage, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration
- 7 Calculation of Doses: General Considerations
- 8 Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters
- 9 Some Calculations Involving "Units," "g/mg," and Other Measures of Potency
- 10 Selected Clinical Calculations
- 11 Isotonic and Buffer Solutions
- 12 Electrolyte Solutions: Milliequivalents, Millimoles, and Milliosmoles
- 13 Intravenous Infusions, Parenteral Admixtures, and Rate-of-Flow Calculations
- 14 Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Body Mass Index, and the Food Nutrition Label
- 15 Dilution, Concentration, and Alligation
- 16 Reducing and Enlarging Formulas
- 17 Selected Calculations in Contemporary Compounding
- 18 Selected Calculations Involving Veterinary Pharmaceuticals
- 19 Selected Calculations Associated with Plant Extractives
- 20 Calculation of Active Drug Moiety
- 21 Selected Calculations Involving Radiopharmaceuticals
- 22 Selected Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Calculations
- 23 Selected Pharmacoeconomic Calculations
Appendices
- Appendix A Common Systems of Measurement and Intersystem Conversion
- Appendix B Graphical Methods
- Appendix C Basic Statistical
- Appendix D Glossary of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems
- Index
- Atomic Weights
Product Details
- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Thirteenth edition (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 158255837X
- ISBN-13: 978-1582558370
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches
List Price: $79.95