Now in its Third Edition, this succinct, easy-to-use, current, and very functional handbook goes through the steps of receiving the prescription, preparing it, and completing the compound. The book provides a source for contemporary practice previously found spread out over journal articles, legal documents, standards of practice, specialty books, and textbooks.

Highlights of this edition include a more comprehensive section on sterile dosage forms and their preparation; expanded discussion of medication errors; processing tools for improving compounded preparations and reducing errors; a new chapter on systems of measurement and basic pharmaceutical calculations; and a new section on veterinary pharmacy practice. Patient cases with the sample compounded prescription orders and parenteral preparation medication orders show typical situations and problem-solving to meet special therapy and patient needs.

A back-of-book CD-ROM includes study guides, interactive self-assessment, and multimedia demonstrations of compounding procedures for key chapters.
A companion website offers the CD content as well as full text online and an image bank.

PART 1: PROCESSING THE PRESCRIPTION

• CHAPTER 1: Prescription and Medication Drug Orders


• CHAPTER 2: Labeling Prescriptions and Medications


• CHAPTER 3: Controlled Substances


• CHAPTER 4: Expiration and Beyond-Use Dating


• CHAPTER 5: Drug Utilization Review and Medication-Use Evaluation


• CHAPTER 6: Patient Counseling

PART 2: CALCULATIONS

• CHAPTER 7: Systems of Measurement and Introduction to Pharmaceutical
  Calculations


• CHAPTER 8: Quantity and Concentration Expressions and Calculations


• CHAPTER 9: Evaluating Dosage Regimens


• CHAPTER 10: Aliquot Calculations


• CHAPTER 11: Isotonicity Calculations

PART 3: COMPOUNDING DRUG PREPARATIONS

• CHAPTER 12: General Guidelines for Preparing Compounded Drug Preparations


• CHAPTER 13: Selection, Storage, and Handling of Compounding Equipment and
  Ingredients


• CHAPTER 14: Selection and Use of Weighing and Measuring Equipment

PART 4: PHARMACEUTICAL EXCIPIENTS

• CHAPTER 15: Pharmaceutical Solvents and Solubilizing Agents


• CHAPTER 16: Antimicrobial Preservatives


• CHAPTER 17: Antioxidants


• CHAPTER 18: Buffers and pH Adjusting Agents


• CHAPTER 19: Viscosity-Inducing Agents


• CHAPTER 20: Surfactants and Emulsifying Agents


• CHAPTER 21: Colors, Flavors, Sweeteners, and Scents


• CHAPTER 22: Vehicles for Liquid Preparations


• CHAPTER 23: Ointment Bases


• CHAPTER 24: Suppository Bases

PART 5: NONSTERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION

• CHAPTER 25: Powders


• CHAPTER 26: Capsules, Lozenges, and Other Solid Oral Dosage Forms


• CHAPTER 27: Solutions


• CHAPTER 28: Suspensions


• CHAPTER 29: Liquid Emulsions


• CHAPTER 30: Semisolids: Ointments, Creams, Gels, Pastes, and Collodions


• CHAPTER 31: Suppositories

PART 6: STERILE DOSAGE FORMS AND THEIR PREPARATION

• CHAPTER 32: General Principles of Sterile Dosage Form Preparation


• CHAPTER 33: Ophthalmic, Nasal, Inhalation, and Irrigation Solutions


• CHAPTER 34: Parenteral Preparations


• CHAPTER 35: Total Parenteral Nutrition

PART 7: VETERINARY PHARMACY

• CHAPTER 36: Veterinary Pharmacy Practice

PART 8: COMPATIBILITY AND STABILITY

• CHAPTER 37: Compatibility and Stability of Drug Products and Preparations

APPENDICES

• APPENDIX A: Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions and
  Medication Orders


• APPENDIX B: Nomograms for Determination of Body Surface Area from Height and Weight


• APPENDIX C: National Center for Health Statistics Growth Charts


• APPENDIX D: Isotonicity Values

INDEX