calculations in community, hospital and industrial settings. New chapters cover contemporary compounding, calculations involving veterinary pharmaceuticals, body mass index and the nutrition label calculations associated with plant extractives, and a miscellaneous chapter combining relevant calculation topics from formerly separate appendices. Important changes to existing chapters include the incorporation of dosing considerations in chemotherapy and heparin dosing; calculations relevant to body electrolyte and water requirements; the quantitative determination of active drug moiety when present in chemically combined forms; and, a revised treatment of aliquot measuring. Includes over 100 new practice problems.

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