Supplementary videos demonstrating various dispensing procedures can be viewed online at www.pharmpress.com/PCDvideos. --Book Jacket.

A student guide to extemporaneous pharmaceutical compounding and dispensing.

This is a modern, detailed and practical guide to the theory and practice of extemporaneous compounding and dispensing. Fully revised and updated, this new edition will be an indispensable reference for pharmacy students and practicing pharmacists.

The authors have been teaching Dispensing and Compounding practice for a very long period. One of the challenges in their carrier was the lack of a proper, user friendly and comprehensive reference in compounding to use for teaching and instructing students as well as in hospital pharmacy practice. This book was constructed with this challenge in mind, and therefore simply presents such a reference. It is simply written, covers a wide spectrum of compounding practice with many formulae. The book is also useful for entrepreneurial individuals interested in small scale manufacturing of extemporaneous products.

This comprehensive book covers a wide range of subjects relevant to pharmacy practice, including communication skills, managing a business, quality assurance, dispensing, calculations, packaging, storage and labeling of medicines, sterilization, prescriptions, hospital-based services, techniques and treatments, adverse drug reactions, pharmacoeconomics, and medicines management. Features useful appendices on medical abbreviations, pharmaceutical Latin terms, weights and measures, and presentation skills. This is a core text for pharmacy practice and dispensing modules of the pharmacy curriculum Covers key exam material for essential review and test preparation Features a user-friendly design with clear headings, chapter summaries, helpful boxes, and key points Text restructured with 14 new or radically revised chapters. All text revised in light of current pharmaceutical practice. New design using two colours.