Pharmaceutical calculations/ Joel L Zatz

Preface. To The Student. Chapter 1: General Principles of Calculations. Chapter 2: Units, Weighing, and Measuring. Chapter 3: Prescription and Medication Orders. Chapter 4: Dosage. Chapter 5: Percentage Strength. Chapter 6: Ratio Strength and Stock Solutions. Chapter 7: Dilution and Concentration. Chapter 8: Isotonicity, pH, and Buffers. Chapter 9: Injectable Medications and Intravenous Fluids - Part I. Chapter 10: Injectable Medications and Intravenous Fluids - Part II. Chapter 11: Parenteral Nutrition. Chapter 12: Biologics for Immunization. Chapter 13: Radioactive Decay. Chapter 14: Rate Laws and Shelf Life. Appendixes. Appendix 1: Systems of Measurement. Appendix 2: Calibration of Medicinal Dropper. Appendix 3: Medical Abbreviations. Appendix 4: Names, Atomic Weights and Symbols of Some Chemical Elements with Pharmaceutical Importance. Appendix 5: Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. Appendix 6: Biologics for Immunization. Appendix 7: Temperature Conversion. Appendix 8: Proof Strength. Appendix 9: Hydrophile Lipophile Balance (HLB). Appendix 10: Vapor Pressure of Liquefied Propellants. Appendix 11: Drug Binding Measured by Dialysis. Appendix 12: Viscosity Measurement by the Capillary Viscometer. Appendix 13: Sedimentation Kinetics. Appendix 14: Suppository Mold Calculations. Appendix 15: Powder Volume Calculations. Literature Consulted. Index.