Calculations and Pharmaceutics in Practice

This new book is derived from its parent volume Pharmacy Practice and is a succinct, focused guide to pharmaceutical preparations and calculations. Covering everything from calculations to routes of administration dosage forms, it provides pharmacy students with everything they need to know about the maths and methodologies essential to good exam preparation and the safe, effective practice of pharmacy.

• Each chapter begins with Study Points and ends with Key Points to reinforce learning.
• Appendices include medical abbreviations, Latin terms and abbreviations, systems of weights and measurements and presentation skills.
• Some chapters also carry self-assessment questions for more complex areas of pharmaceutical practice.

1. Using calculations in pharmacy practice
2. Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
3. Oral unit dosage forms
4. Packaging
5. Solutions
6. Suspensions
7. Emulsions
8. External preparations
9. Suppositories and pessaries
10. Powders and granules
11. Sterile products
12. Parenteral products
13. Opthalmic products
14. Inhaled products
15. Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
16. Radiopharmacy
17. Specialized services
18. Appliances
19. Routes of administration and dosage forms