The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference

Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the fi ve main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of about 1,200 of the most commonly prescribed drugs - including 93 drugs new to the market since the sixth edition - the book provides generic name (with pronunciation), trade name(s), therapeutic class, general FDA approved therapeutic use(s), and commercially available dosage forms/ strengths. KEY FEATURES: Monographs on 510 products - including 77 new monographs and 433 updated from the previous edition - arranged alphabetically by nonproprietary name.Each monograph organized into 3 easy-to-use categories: Properties, General Stability Considerations, and Stability Reports of Compounded Preparations Fourth and fi fth categories included where information is available: Compatibility with Other Drug Products and Compatibility with Common Beverages and Foods Two appendices - Beyond-Use Dating for Compounded Nonsterile Preparations and Beyond-Use Dating for Compounded Sterile Preparations - summarizing USP benchmarks for assigning beyond-use periods in the absence of relevant research Index of nonproprietary and brand names