Am.Soc./Health-Sys.Pharmacists

Gibaldi's drug delivery systems in pharmaceutical care.

For use in pharmacy education, this text shows how clinical pharmacists can integrate knowledge in pharmaceutical sciences and therapeutics with an understanding of patient-specific factors to advise prescribers on dosage formulations to best meet patients' needs. Assembling 26 chapters, Desai (pharmaceutical sciences, Midwestern U. Chicago College of Pharmacy) and Lee (pharmacy and health sciences education and pharmacy practice, Midwestern U. Chicago College of Pharmacy) aim to make therapeutics a critical component of teaching about dosage formulation and to make dosage formulations and drug delivery systems an integral part of instruction in therapeutics. Chapters begin with basic concepts of routes of administration, formulation design, bioavailability and bioequivalence, and formulation and chemical modifications for prolonging drug action. This is followed by a discussion of clinical decision-making and individual chapters arranged according to therapeutic category, which illustrate applications of concepts from the first part of the book. Contributors are clinical pharmacist practitioners and pharmaceutical scientists from the US. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)

Teddy bear book; pediatric injectable drugs, 8th ed.

This edition, which has been substantially updated, contains 221 entries on the most commonly used pediatric medications, including over-the-counter medicines such as aspirin. Entries for each medication include dosages, adjustments in organ dysfunction, maximum dosages. IV push protocols, intermittent and continuous infusion protocols, other routes of administration, maximum concentration, cautions related to administration, and other possible additives. This oversized volume is easy to read and useful as central desk reference in a clinical setting. (Annotation ©2007 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)