Pharmaceutical Calculations MD0802

✍ Scribed by US Army medical department

• Publisher: US Army medical department
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Series: US Army medical course
• Edition: 100
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
LESSON 1
REVIEW OF BASIC MATHEMATICS
INTRODUCTION
FRACTIONS
COMMON DENOMINATORS
LOWEST TERMS
TYPES OF FRACTIONS
CHANGING AN IMPROPER FRACTION TO A MIXED NUMBER
CHANGING MIXED NUMBERS TO IMPROPER FRACTIONS
ADDING FRACTIONS
SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS
MULTIPLYING FRACTIONS
DIVIDING FRACTIONS
DECIMALS
CONVERTING A FRACTION TO A DECIMAL
MULTIPLYING A DECIMAL BY A NUMBER THAT IS A MULTIPLE OF 10
DIVIDING DECIMALS BY MULTIPLES OF 10
ADDING DECIMALS
SUBTRACTING DECIMALS
MULTIPLYING DECIMALS
DIVIDING DECIMALS
BASIC ALGEBRAIC PRINCIPLES
TEMPERATURE CONVERSIONS
INTRODUCTION
FORMULA
ALGEBRAIC PRINCIPLES INVOLVED
SAMPLE PROBLEMS
PRESCRIPTION INTERPRETATION
INTRODUCTION
METRIC LINE
ROMAN NUMERALS
VALUES OF SINGLE NUMERALS
VALUES OF COMBINED NUMERALS
RATIO AND PROPORTION
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITIONS
CONDITIONS WHICH MUST BE MET
THE METRIC SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
VALUES OF PREFIXES IN THE METRIC SYSTEM
BASIC UNITS OF THE METRIC SYSTEM
USING CONVERSIONS IN PROBLEMS
CONVERSIONS WITHIN THE METRIC SYSTEM
GENERAL RULES
COMMON SYSTEMS OF MEASURE
INTRODUCTION
WEIGHT: AVOIRDUPOIS SYSTEM
VOLUME: APOTHECARY SYSTEM
REDUCTION AND ENLARGEMENT OF FORMULAS
INTRODUCTION
RATIO AND PROPORTION METHOD
CONVERSION FACTOR METHOD
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 2
SPECIFIC GRAVITY
INTRODUCTION
DEFINITION
SPECIFIC GRAVITY TRIANGLE
PERCENTAGE PREPARATIONS
INTRODUCTION
TYPES OF PERCENT
METHODS FOR SOLVING PERCENTAGE PROBLEMS
DILUTION OF STOCK PREPARATIONS
INTRODUCTION
FORMULAS
EXAMPLE PROBLEMS
ALLIGATION
INTRODUCTION
PROCEDURE FOR FINDING PROPORTIONS
ALLIGATION PROBLEMS
FORMULATING THE EQUATION USING THE MATRIX
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
LESSON 3
PHARMACEUTICAL CALCULATIONS III
INTRODUCTION
WHAT IS A DOSE?
PROBLEMS USING MANUFACTURER'S RECOMMENDED DOSE
PROBLEMS USING LABEL STRENGTH
FORMULAS INVOLVING "ADULT DOSE"
EXERCISES
SOLUTIONS
COMMENT SHEET