2022 Pharmacy Technician’s Guide to Pharmacy Calculations
A Simplified Approach to Pharmacy Calculations Without the use of a Calculator for Pharmacy Technicians
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2022 Pharmacy Technician’s Guide to Pharmacy Calculations
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Alice Taylor
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About this listen
Here, you'll get to learn a variety of topics which includes; different measuring systems and how to convert between them, the system of units, calculating drug dosages based on a patient's age or body weight, error assessment in drug dose, and mixture problems among others. It is a ten-chapter book that acts as a complete guide from the basic to the complex concepts about calculations in pharmacy.
This book is a fundamental, comprehensive, well-written, practical reference for everyone working with calculations in the healthcare industry.
A snippet of topics covered in this book include:
Concentration Units in Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mass per unit volume
Percent by weight (% w/w)
Percent Weight per Volume (% w/v)
Percent by Volume (% v/v)
Molarity
Molarity Equation
Normality
Ratio strength
Parts per million by mass
Parts per Billion (ppb) by Mass
Mole fraction
Salt factor
Dilution and Concentration of Pharmaceutical Solutions and Other Physical Mixtures
Mass Balance Equation
Multiple Serial Dilutions and the Dilution Factor (DF)
Concentrating Solutions
Mixture Problems in Pharmaceutical Sciences
General mixture problems
Alligation methods
Alligation Medial
Alligation Alternate
Isotonic Solutions
Hypotonic solution
Special Clinical Considerations of Tonicity
Physical/chemical considerations in the preparation of isotonic solutions
Preparing Isotonic Solutions
Drug Dissolution
Transmembrane Diffusion
Fundamental Concepts of Dosage Calculations
Dosage regimen
Dosages depending on formulation units
Solid formulations
Formulations for oral liquids
Dose volumes less than 5 mL
Doses based on the weight of the drug
Formulations in liquid form
Dose based on units
Examining for an overdose
Dosages for patients with renal impairment
Doses based on age
Dosages are calculated depending on body weight
The Process of Drug Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, and Excretion
Drug Absorption
Distribution of Drugs
Drug Metabolism
Drug Excretion
Drug Clearance
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