Pharmaceutical Calculations Book

1	Fundamentals of pharmaceutical calculations	1
2	International system of units	25
3	Pharmaceutical measurement	39
4	Interpretation of prescriptions and medication orders	51
5	Density, specific gravity, and specific volume	67
6	Percentage, ratio strength, and other expressions of concentration	79
7	Calculation of doses : general considerations	99
8	Calculation of doses : patient parameters	115
9	Some calculations involving "units," "[mu]g/mg," and other measures of potency	135
10	Selected clinical calculations	143
11	Isotonic and buffer solutions	157
12	Electrolyte solutions : milliequivalents, millimoles, and milliomoles	177
13	Intravenous infusions, parenteral admixtures, and rate-of-flow calculations	195
14	Enteral and parenteral nutrition, body mass index, and the food nutrition label	213
15	Dilution, concentration, and allegation	235
16	Reducing and enlarging formulas	263
17	Selected calculations in contemporary compounding	271
18	Selected calculations involving veterinary pharmaceuticals	291
19	Selected calculations associated with plant extractives	297
20	Calculation of active drug moiety	303
21	Selected calculations involving radiopharmaceuticals	311
22	Selected bioavailability and pharmacokinetic calculations	321
23	Selected pharmacoeconomic calculations	333