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• Title:Pharmaceutical calculations / Howard C. Ansel, PhD, Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Pharmacy, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, Shelly J. Stockton, PhD, RPh, Professor, College of Pharmacy, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Weatherford, Oklahoma.
  
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• Author/Creator:Ansel, Howard C., 1933- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Stockton, Shelly J., author.
  
• Published/Created:Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QV748 .A618p 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Pharmaceutical arithmetic.
  Drugs--Dosage forms.
  
• Medical Subjects: Drug Dosage Calculations.
  Pharmaceutical Preparations--administration & dosage.
  
• Edition:15th edition.
  
• Description:xii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  
• Summary:"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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781496300713 (alk. paper)
  1496300718 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations
  2. International System of Units
  3. Pharmaceutical Measurement
  4. Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders
  5. Density and Specific Gravity
  6. Percent Strength, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration
  7. Calculation of Doses: General Considerations
  8. Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters
  9. Calculations Involving Units of Activity 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, Rate-of-Flow Calculations
  14. Assessment of Nutritional Status, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, and the Food Nutrition Label
  15. Altering Product Strength, Use of Stock Solutions, and Problem Solving by 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. Cost Differential Calculations in Drug Therapy.