Fundamentals of Pharmaceutics and Dispensing Pharmacy is a must-have guide for all pharmacy students and professionals. This book serves as an extensive guide that provides practical application of dispensing pharmacy along with theoretical knowledge, helping the reader understand the intricacies and complexities of the profession. Designed to be used along with textbooks and reference books, this comprehensive guide covers the essential elements of an ideal pharmacy professional, including dosage forms and the challenges encountered within extemporaneous dispensing. It also features worked examples that have been thoroughly tested in laboratories, providing readers with an opportunity to practice extemporaneous formulation exercises. Perfect for undergraduates of B. Pharm. students, the book is in accordance with PCI and Indian Pharmacopoeia standards, making it a valuable resource for those preparing for GPAT exams and practicing pharmacists who need a quick reference text. Fundamentals of Pharmaceutics and Dispensing Pharmacy is an essential resource for enhancing your knowledge and understanding of the field.

Supplementary videos demonstrating various dispensing procedures can be viewed online at www.pharmpress.com/PCDvideos. --Book Jacket.

Dispensing of medication remains an art and a most exacting science, which pharmacists are supposed to master. Obviously modern pharmacists have to cope with their changing role and this has been the focal theme in presenting this text on Modern Dispensing Pharmacy. Attempts have been made to inculcate the newer concepts and latest knowledge relevant to a pharmacist as dispenser of medicines that is greatly facilitated with the knowledge of computers and user friendly softwares. FEATURES - To maintain a balance between the traditional and the modern practice of dispensing, this text covers briefly the basic techniques of compounding and introduces the modern concepts in adequate details. - Appendices provided in this book gives useful information relevant to the dispensing pharmacist.

Topics 1. Pharmacist: A Health Care Provider 2. Prescription 3. Art Of Compounding Of Medicines 4. Art Of Despensing Of Medicines 5. Good Pharmacy Practices 6. Storage And Stability Of Medicines 7. Posology 8. Physicochemical Incompatibility 9. Therapeutic Incompatibility 10. Pharmaceutical Additives 11. Monophasic Liquids 12. Suspensions 13. Emulsions 14. Semisolids 15. Suppositories 16. Pharmaceutical Powders 17. Unit Dosage Forms 18. Sterile Preparations 19. Novel Drug Delivery Systems 20. Pharmaceutical Calculations

Traditional practice as well as orientation of Dispensing and Hospital Pharmacy has undergone drastic changes. The spectrum of activities of the pharmacists involved in Dispensing and Hospital Pharmacy is widening with a greater focus and emphasis on health care delivery. The book 'Modern Dispensing and Hospital Pharmacy' comprises chapters such as Genesis and Evaluation of Pharmacy, Principles of Dispensing, Prescription, Pharmaceutical Calculation, Posology, Mixtures, Solutions, Emulsions, Powders, Lotions and Liniments, Suspensions, Ointments and Miscellaneous Preparations, Extraction and Galenical Products, and Incompatibility. This book also covers Organization of a Hospital Pharmacy, Drug Distribution, Drug Information Centre, Hospital Management and Records as applicable in modern hospital pharmacy. The main aim of writing this book is to present up to date knowledge to maintain a balance between the traditional and the modern techniques of dispensing and hospital pharmacy. An attempt has been made to include the newer concepts and latest knowledge relevant to a pharmacist as a member of health care delivery system

This book contains essential knowledge on the preparation, control, logistics, dispensing and use of medicines. It features chapters written by experienced pharmacists working in hospitals and academia throughout Europe, complete with practical examples as well as information on current EU-legislation. From prescription to production, from usage instructions to procurement and the impact of medicines on the environment, the book provides step-by-step coverage that will help a wide range of readers. It offers product knowledge for all pharmacists working directly with patients and it will enable them to make the appropriate medicine available, to store medicines properly, to adapt medicines if necessary and to dispense medicines with the appropriate information to inform patients and caregivers about product care and how to maintain their quality. This basic knowledge will also be of help to industrial pharmacists to remind and focus them on the application of the medicines manufactured. The basic and practical knowledge on the design, preparation and quality management of medicines can directly be applied by the pharmacists whose main duty is production in community and hospital pharmacies and industries. Undergraduate as well as graduate pharmacy students will find knowledge and backgrounds in a fully coherent way and fully supported with examples.