Pharmaceutical Calculations 13th edition

go site The Thirteenth Edition of http://jannaorganic.co.uk/blog/2025/04/03/j658sc0n2 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.

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Table of Contents

see Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Calculations
Chapter 2: International System of Units
Chapter 3: Pharmaceutical Measurement
Chapter 4: Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medication Orders
Chapter 5: Density, Specific Gravity, and Specific Volume
Chapter 6: Percentage, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration
Chapter 7: Calculation of Doses: General Considerations
Chapter 8: Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters
Chapter 9: Some Calculations Involving “Units,” “μg/mg,” and Other Measures of Potency
Chapter 10: Selected Clinical Calculations
Chapter 11: Isotonic and Buffer Solutions
Chapter 12: Electrolyte Solutions: Milliequivalents, Millimoles, and Milliosmoles
Chapter 13: Intravenous Infusions, Parenteral Admixtures, and Rate-of-Flow Calculations
Chapter 14: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, Body Mass Index, and the Food Nutrition Label
Chapter 15: Altering Product Strength, Use of Stock Solutions, and Problem-Solving by Alligation
Chapter 16: Reducing and Enlarging Formulas
Chapter 17: Selected Calculations in Contemporary Compounding
Chapter 18: Selected Calculations Involving Veterinary Pharmaceuticals
Chapter 19: Selected Calculations Associated with Plant Extractives
Chapter 20: Calculation of Active Drug Moiety
Chapter 21: Selected Calculations Involving Radiopharmaceuticals
Chapter 22: Selected Bioavailability and Pharmacokinetic Calculations
Chapter 23: Selected Pharmacoeconomic Calculations