Pharmaceutical Practice E-Book

Arthur J. Winfield

Description

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.

Informations

• Publié par: Churchill Livingstone
• Date de parution: 21 juillet 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9780702041877
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Pharmaceutical Practice
FOURTH EDITION

A.J. Winfield, BPharm PhD MRPharmS
Formerly Chairman, and Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait

J.A. Rees, BPharm MSc PhD Certificate in Health Promotion
Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

I. Smith, BSc(Hons) ClinDip FHEA MRPharmS
Boots Teacher Practitioner, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Churchill Livingstone
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Fourth edition 2009
Third edition 2004
Second edition 1998
First edition 1990
ISBN 978-0-443-06906-2
International edition ISBN 978-0-443-06909-3
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Notice
Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience broaden our knowledge, changes in practice, treatment and drug therapy may become necessary or appropriate. Readers are advised to check the most current information provided (i) on procedures featured or (ii) by the manufacturer of each product to be administered, to verify the recommended dose or formula, the method and duration of administration, and contraindications. It is the responsibility of the practitioner, relying on their own experience and knowledge of the patient, to make diagnoses, to determine dosages and the best treatment for each individual patient, and to take all appropriate safety precautions. To the fullest extent of the law, neither the Publisher nor the Editors assumes any liability for any injury and/or damage to persons or property arising out of or related to any use of the material contained in this book.
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Contributors
Arthur J. Winfield BPharm PhD MRPharmS
Academic and professional positions held: Senior Lecturer and Head of Pharmacy Practice, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen; First Local Postgraduate Tutor for Scottish Centre for Postqualification Pharmaceutical Education; Academic Advisor and External Examiner for new Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Kuwait and then became first Chairman of Department of Pharmacy Practice, University of Kuwait. Following retirement has been Visiting Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait
21 Routes of administration and dosage forms
26 Pharmaceutical calculations
30 Solutions
31 Suspensions
32 Emulsions
33 External preparations
34 Suppositories and pessaries
35 Powders and granules
36 Oral unit dosage forms
Appendix 2 Latin terms and abbreviations
Appendix 3 Systems of weights and measures
Judith A. Rees BPharm MSc PhD Certificate in Health Promotion
Academic and professional positions held: Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester; External Examiner for Pharmacy at University of Bath, Robert Gordon University, DeMontfort University, Aston University, Kingston University, University of Hertfordshire, School of Pharmacy, London, UK
2 Models of pharmacy practice within healthcare systems
13 Communication skills for the pharmacist
25 Dispensing techniques (compounding and good practice)
28 Labelling of dispensed medicines
43 Storage of medicines and waste disposal
44 Communication skills – role of the pharmacist in giving advice and information
Ian Smith BSc(Hons) ClinDip FHEA MRPharmS
Academic and professional positions held: currently Boots Teacher Practitioner, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK. Prior to this he held the same position in Bradford University. He has also worked for Boots as a Preregistration and Management Tutor in Nottingham and as a store manager in Thirsk
24 The prescription
Darren Ashcroft BPharm MSc PhD MRPharmS
Reader in Medicines Usage & Safety and Director, Centre for Innovation in Practice, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
9 Risk management
David R. Bethell BScPharm(Hons) MRPharmS MInstM
LPC Secretary, Wigan Branch Secretary, UK
43 Storage of medicines and waste disposal
Christine M. Bond BPharm MSc MEd PhD FRPharmS FPH FHEA
Professor of Primary Care (Pharmacy), Head of Centre of Academic Primary Care, University of Aberdeen; Consultant in Pharmaceutical Public Health, NHS Grampian, Aberdeen, UK
1 The role of pharmacy in healthcare
Derek G. Chapman BSc(Pharm) PhD MRPharmS
Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
27 Packaging
29 Production of sterile products
38 Parenteral products
Victoria Crabtree BPharm(Hons) MRPharmS
Teaching Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
48 Services for vulnerable patients
Parastou Donyai BPharm(Hons) PhD MRPharmS PCTLHE PGDPRM(Open)
Lecturer, School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Berkshire, UK
23 Information retrieval
Ivan O. Edafiogho BPharm MSc PhD PharmD
Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait
26 Pharmaceutical calculations
K. Hannes Enlund MSc(Pharm) DSc(Pharm)
Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Kuwait University, Kuwait
3 Socio-behavioural aspects of health and illness
4 Socio-behavioural aspects of treatment with medicines
Marthe M. Everard BSc(Pharm) MSc(Pharm) MSc(LSHTM) MRPharmS
Technical Officer, Department of Medicines Policy and Standards, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
7 WHO and the essential medicines concept
Isobel J. Featherstone MPharm MRPharmS
Locum pharmacist
13 Communication skills for the pharmacist
David Graham BSc MSc MRPharmS
Radiopharmacist, Department of Pharmacy, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, UK
42 Radiopharmacy
Felice S. Groundland BSc(Pharm) MRPharmS
Boots Teacher Practitioner, School of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK
14 Relationship with other members of the healthcare team
Jason Hall BSc MSc PhD MRPharmS PGCE MCPP
Senior Teaching Fellow, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
16 Access to medicines and prescribing – introduction
17 The prescribing process and evidence-based medicine
Lindsay Harper BSc(Hons) MRPharmS DipClin
Principal Clinical Pharmacist, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford Royal Hospital, Salford, UK
41 Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
Dyfrig A. Hughes BPharm MSc PhD MRPharmS
Reader in Pharmacoeconomics, Institute of Medical and Social Care Research, Bangor University, Bangor, UK
19 Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
Janet Krska BSc PhD PGCert (Tertiary Level Teaching) PGCert (Health Economics) MRPharmS MCPP
Professor in Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
11 Audit
18 Formularies
19 Drug evaluation and pharmacoeconomics
Liz Lamerton BSc(Hons) Pharmacy MRPharmS DipClin Pharm
Pharmacy Department, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Salford, UK
41 Parenteral nutrition and dialysis
Alison Littlewood MRPharmS MSc MCPP FHEA
Lead Pre-Registration Trainee Pharmacist Facilitator, NW Region, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
47 Monitoring the patient
G. Brian Lockwood BPharm PhD MRPharmS FHEA
Senior Lecturer, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
20 Complementary/alternative medicine
Richard C. O’Neill LLB LLM BPharm PhD MRPharmS
Associate Head, The School of Pharmacy, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
12 Ethics
Karen Rice MPharm MRPharmS
Business Developement Manager, The Cohens Group, Lostock, Bolton, UK
45 Collection and delivery services
Peter M. Richards BPharm MRPharmS
Prescribing Adviser, Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust, Lincoln, UK
37 Inhaled route
R. Michael E. Richards OBE BPharm PhD DSc DPharmSci(Hons) DPharm(Hons) RPL(Thai)
Visiting Professor and Executive Consultant, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Mahasarakham, Thailand
39 Ophthalmic products
Appendix 4 Presentation skills
Paul Rutter BPharm PhD MRPharmS