Stoklosa and Ansel's Pharmaceutical Calculations
by Shelly J. Stockton
16th Edition
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer Health
Book Details
| Print ISBN | 9781975128555 |
| eText ISBN | 9781975128586 |
| Publisher | Wolters Kluwer Health |
| Publishing Year | 2021 |
| Edition | 16th Edition |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 512 |
Stoklosa and Ansel's Pharmaceutical Calculations, 16th Edition, is a textbook that introduces foundational mathematical principles, measurement systems, and calculation methods essential to pharmacy practice. The volume explains fundamental techniques for interpreting prescriptions and calculating medication doses across varied clinical settings.
Core areas of coverage include expressions of drug concentration, clinical solution preparation, and mathematical procedures for compounding formulations. The text also examines dosage determinations based on individual patient parameters as well as intravenous and nutritional therapies.
Reference appendices support applied learning and calculations, providing tools such as a glossary of pharmaceutical dosage forms and drug delivery systems.
Table of Contents
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 and Specific Gravity
Chapter 6: Percent Strength, Ratio Strength, and Other Expressions of Concentration
Chapter 7: Calculation of Doses: General Considerations
Chapter 8: Calculation of Doses: Patient Parameters
Chapter 9: Calculations Involving Units of Activity 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, Rate-of-Flow Calculations
Chapter 14: Assessment of Nutritional Status, Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition, 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: Basic Pharmacokinetics
Chapter 23: Cost Differential Calculations in Drug Therapy
Chapter Appendix A: Common Systems of Measurement and Intersystem Conversion
Chapter Appendix B: Glossary of Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms and Drug Delivery Systems
Chapter Appendix C: Table of Atomic Weights
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