Research Catalog

Title

Pharmaceutical calculations / Howard C. Ansel.

Author

Ansel, Howard C., 1933-

Publication

Philadelphia : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, [2010], ©2010.

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Description

xvi, 444 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subjects

• Pharmaceutical arithmetic
• Drug Prescriptions
• Drug Compounding > methods
• Dosage Forms
• Weights and Measures
• Drug Dosage Calculations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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," "[mu]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 Lable -- 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 -- Appendix A. Common Systems of Measurement and Intersystem -- Appendix B. Graphical Methods -- Appendix C. Basic Statistical Concepts -- Appendix D. Glossary of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems.

ISBN

• 9781582558370
• 158255837X

LCCN

2008045672

OCLC

• ocn263295182
• 263295182
• SCSB-8882523

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries