Mosby's Pharmacy Technician
Principles and Practice
- 7th Edition - October 24, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Karen Davis, Anthony Guerra
- Language: English
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Request a sales quoteGet everything you need to prepare for a successful career as a pharmacy technician in one easy-to-read textbook! Useful from day one through graduation, Mosby's Pharmacy Technician: Principles and Practice, 7th Edition, includes comprehensive information on pharmacy practice, anatomy and physiology, math calculation, and pharmacology. Built from the ground up to map directly to American Society for Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) accreditation competencies and to the accepted certification exams, this approachable text covers everything from processing and handling of medications and medication orders to patient safety, quality assurance, and regulation and compliance. It also features a rich art program with equipment close-ups, clinical procedures and processes, and body system illustrations that bring the content to life and visually reinforce your understanding of key concepts. With its clear writing, expert insight, and engaging study tools, this text will help you develop a solid foundation in the pharmacy content you need to pass the board examination and launch a successful and rewarding career.
- NEW! Content covers the latest information on telehealth, virtual patient communication, infection protection, and medications
- EXPANDED! Additional information addresses non-sterile and sterile compounding and foundational math calculations
- Comprehensive coverage of pharmacy practice, A&P, and pharmacology support classroom success and board exam preparation
- Built from the ground up to map to the latest ASHP accreditation standards and competencies
- Step-by-step illustrated procedures offer rationales for key skills and competencies
- Study practice includes review questions at the end of each chapter, exam-review appendix with sample questions, and review questions online
- Real-world problem-solving is emphasized in scenario boxes throughout the text.
- Mini drug monographs provide essential drug information summaries and photos for commonly prescribed medications
- Tech Notes and Tech Alerts offer practical tips for on-the-job accuracy and efficiency
Pharmacy Technician Students
- Mosby’s® Pharmacy Technician : Principles and Practice
- Cover image
- Title page
- Disclaimer
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Reviewers
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Section One. Pharmacy Practice
- 1. History of medicine and pharmacy
- Scenario
- History of medicine
- Ancient beliefs and treatments
- The medical staff
- The evolution of medicine
- Scenario checkup 1.1
- Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century medicine
- Twentieth-century medicine
- Advances in drug therapy and vaccinations
- Are old remedies making a comeback?
- History of pharmacy
- Early pharmacists
- Early pharmacy in America
- Changing pharmacy requirements
- Scenario checkup 1.2
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 2. Pharmacy law, ethics, and regulatory agencies
- Scenario
- US food and drug administration history
- Early activity of the US food and drug administration
- Description of laws
- 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
- 1914 Harrison Narcotics Act
- 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act
- 1951 Durham-Humphrey Amendment
- 1962 Kefauver-Harris Amendments
- 1970 Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act (also known as the Controlled Substances Act)
- 1970 Poison Prevention Packaging Act
- 1972 Drug Listing Act: National Drug Code
- 1983 Orphan Drug Act
- 1987 Prescription Drug Marketing Act
- 1990 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act
- 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
- Scenario checkup 2.1
- Patient confidentiality
- Scenario checkup 2.2
- Food and drug administration and drug enforcement administration
- Controlled substances
- Ratings of scheduled (controlled) substances
- Scenario checkup 2.3
- Drug monographs
- 1. Indications and usage
- 2. Dosage and administration
- 3. Dosage forms and strengths
- 4. Contraindications
- 5. Warnings and precautions
- 6. Adverse reactions
- 7. Drug interactions
- 8. Use in specific populations
- 9. Drug abuse and dependence
- 10. Overdosage
- 11. Description
- 12. Clinical pharmacology
- 13. Nonclinical toxicology
- 14. Clinical studies
- 15. References
- 16. How supplied/storage and handling
- 17. Patient counseling information
- Boxed warning
- MedGuides
- Pregnancy categories
- Prescription regulation
- Who can prescribe?
- Who can receive a prescription?
- Prescription labels and prescription orders
- Special labeling and record-keeping considerations
- Veterinary medications
- Repackaging
- Drug enforcement administration verification
- Child-resistant packaging
- Special prescribing programs
- Programs for opioid maintenance
- Risk management programs for prescription drugs
- Pharmacy sites
- Brick-and-mortar and mail-order pharmacies
- Occupational safety and health administration
- Safety data sheets
- The joint commission
- Legal standards
- State laws
- Liabilities
- Scenario checkup 2.4
- Ethics and morals in the workplace
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 3. Competencies, associations, and settings for technicians
- Scenario
- Historical data
- The pharmacy technician career
- Competencies
- State and national boards of pharmacy
- Scenario checkup 3.1,
- Nondiscretionary duties
- Basic nondiscretionary skills
- Inpatient setting requirements
- Scenario checkup 3.2
- Community (outpatient) setting requirements
- Closed-door pharmacy requirements
- Scenario checkup 3.3
- Training programs for the pharmacy technician student
- Different levels of pharmacy technicians
- National certification for technicians
- The national healthcareer association
- Specialty certifications
- Continuing education
- Opportunities for technicians
- Incentive programs
- Professional technician associations
- American pharmacists association
- American society of health-system pharmacists
- American Association of Pharmacy Technicians
- National community pharmacists association
- National pharmacy technician association
- The society for the education of pharmacy technicians
- Professionalism in the workplace
- Professional dress
- The resume
- The job search
- The future of pharmacy technicians is bright!
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 4. Communication and role of the technician with the customer/patient
- Scenario
- Communication
- The communication cycle
- Nonverbal communications
- Verbal communication
- Optimize your communication
- Scenario checkup 4.1
- Telephone etiquette
- Virtual communication etiquette
- Written communication skills
- Communications with special patient groups
- Scenario checkup 4.2
- Communication with the health care team
- Eliminating communication barriers
- Conclusion
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 5. Dosage forms and routes of administration
- Scenario
- Where did pharmacy abbreviations originate?
- “Do not use” list
- Dosing instructions
- Scenario checkup 5.1
- Classifications of medications
- Classifications of drug sales
- Dosage forms
- Solids
- Liquids
- Scenario checkup 5.2
- Semisolids
- Routes of administration
- By mouth (oral)
- Rectal agents
- Topical agents
- Parenteral: Intravenous, intravenous piggyback, intramuscular, and subcutaneous agents
- Eye, ear, nose (ophthalmic, otic, nasal)
- Scenario checkup 5.3
- Inhalants
- Injectables
- Miscellaneous routes
- Other considerations: Form and function
- Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
- Absorption
- Distribution
- Metabolism
- Scenario checkup 5.4
- Elimination
- Bioavailability
- Half-life
- Bioequivalence
- The use of excipients
- Manufactured products
- Packaging and storage requirements
- Medical terminology
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 6. Conversions and calculations
- Scenario
- History of pharmacy calculations
- Roman numerals
- Rules for determining roman numerals
- Example 6.1 working with roman numerals
- Exercise 6.1 quick check
- International time (military time)
- Exercise 6.2 quick check
- Temperature conversion between fahrenheit and celsius
- Fahrenheit to celsius
- Example 6.2
- Celsius to fahrenheit
- Example 6.3
- Exercise 6.3 quick check
- Basic math skills
- Fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions
- Exercise 6.4 quick check
- Practice quiz 6.1
- Exercise 6.5 quick check
- Working with word problems
- Example 6.4 single-step ratio and proportion problem
- Dimensional analysis
- Example 6.5 dimensional analysis
- Example 6.6 dimensional analysis
- Exercise 6.6 quick check
- Measurement systems
- Metric system
- Exercise 6.7 quick check
- Household measurements
- Example 6.7
- Example 6.8
- Exercise 6.8 quick check
- Apothecary system
- Example 6.9
- Example 6.10
- Exercise 6.9 quick check
- Avoirdupois system
- Exercise 6.10 quick check
- Practice quiz 6.2
- Important differences among systems
- Calculations with liquid medication
- Example 6.11 single-step proportion problem
- Example 6.12 single-step proportion problem
- Example 6.13 multiple-step dimensional analysis problem
- Example 6.14 dimensional analysis
- Exercise 6.11 quick check
- Calculating the proper dose using body weight
- Example 6.15
- Exercise 6.12 quick check
- Calculating body surface area
- Exercise 6.13 quick check
- Oral and injectable syringes
- Pediatric and geriatric dosing
- Example 6.16
- Calculations involving units and milliequivalents
- Example 6.17
- Example 6.18
- Example 6.19
- Exercise 6.14 quick check
- Scenario checkup 6.1
- Subcutaneous injections
- Intramuscular injections
- Intravenous medications
- Example 6.20
- Exercise 6.15 quick check
- Example 6.21 calculating infusion rates and drip rates
- Example 6.22
- Exercise 6.16 quick check
- Percentage and ratio strengths
- Example 6.23 using ratio and percentage
- Example 6.24
- Example 6.25 using dimensional analysis
- Exercise 6.17 quick check
- Dilution
- Example 6.26
- Example 6.27
- Exercise 6.18 quick check
- Total parenteral nutrition
- Example 6.28
- Example 6.29
- Scenario checkup 6.2
- Alligation alternate
- Example 6.30
- Exercise 6.19 quick check
- Practice quiz 6.3
- Business calculations
- Percentages of quantities
- Example 6.31
- Example 6.32
- Example 6.33
- Example 6.34
- Example 6.35
- Exercise 6.20 quick check
- Practice quiz 6.4
- Scenario checkup 6.3
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- 7. Drug information references
- Scenario
- Researching a drug
- References used in pharmacy
- Drug facts and comparisons
- Physicians’ desk reference
- Drug topics red book
- Approved drug products with therapeutic equivalence evaluations: The orange book
- The purple book: A compendium of biological and biosimilar products
- American hospital formulary service drug information
- United states pharmacopoeia–national formulary
- United states pharmacists’ pharmacopeia
- Clinical pharmacology and other gold standard/elsevier products
- Ident-A-Drug
- Scenario checkup 7.1
- Micromedex healthcare series
- Trissel’s handbook on injectable drugs
- American drug index
- Goodman & gilman’s the pharmacological basis of therapeutics
- Handbook of nonprescription drugs
- Martindale: The complete drug reference
- Remington’s pharmaceutical sciences: The science and practice of pharmacy
- Pediatric and neonatal dosage handbook
- Geriatric dosage handbook
- Pocket-sized reference books
- Scenario checkup 7.2
- Electronic referencing
- The internet
- Journals and news magazines
- Scenario checkup 7.3
- Additional types of information
- Considerations when choosing a reference
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 8. Community pharmacy practice
- Scenario
- Scenario checkup 8.1
- Role of the pharmacy technician
- Prescription
- Prescription information
- Prescriber information
- Patient information
- Date
- Superscription
- Inscription
- Subscription
- Scenario checkup 8.2
- Signatura (signa or sig)
- Prescription processing
- Intake
- Data input
- Drug utilization evaluation
- Scanning the prescription
- Prescription labeling
- Auxiliary labels
- Patient product information
- Scenario checkup 8.3
- Prescription preparation
- Scanning the manufacturer’s bottle
- Packaging the prescription
- Checking the prescription
- Filing prescriptions
- Prescription payment
- Scenario checkup 8.4
- Other pharmacy technician duties
- Prescription refilling
- Requesting prescription refill authorization
- Transferring a prescription
- Scenario checkup 8.5
- Pharmacy layout
- Prescription intake window
- Pharmacy bench
- Pharmacy stock area
- Nonsterile compounding area
- Sterile compounding area
- Pharmacy order check-in area
- Reconstitution area
- Repackaging area
- Pharmacy records
- Patient bins
- Prescription pick-up window
- Consultation area
- Drive-through window
- Scenario checkup 8.6
- Communication
- Interacting with the pharmacist
- Interacting with the patient
- Elderly patients
- Customer service
- Scenario checkup 8.7
- Other pharmacy services
- Immunizations
- Medication therapy management
- Synchronization of medications
- Durable and nondurable supplies and equipment
- Long-term care services
- Wellness and disease prevention
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 9. Institutional pharmacy practice
- Scenario
- Types of hospitals
- Hospital pharmacy settings
- Hospital pharmacy standards and procedures
- Policies and standard operating procedures
- Hospital protocol
- Pharmacy and nursing staff relationship
- Regulatory agencies
- Scenario checkup 9.1
- Hospital orders
- Flow of orders
- Point-of-entry systems
- Institutional pharmacy technicians
- Specialty tasks
- Scenario checkup 9.2
- Patient cassette drawers and/or pyxis machines
- Automated dispensing systems
- Unit dose medications
- Controlled substances
- Scenario checkup 9.3
- Intravenous preparations
- Nonhazardous intravenous preparation
- Scenario checkup 9.4
- Labeling
- Scenario checkup 9.5
- Central supply
- The future of the US health care system
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 10. Additional pharmacy practice settings and advanced roles for technicians
- Scenario
- Advanced or specialized pharmacy technician opportunities
- Inventory and purchasing agent
- Medication reconciliation technician
- Prior approval or investigational drug coordinator
- Managed care pharmacy technician
- Scenario checkup 10.1
- Pharmacy technician educator or trainer
- Pharmaceutical sales representative
- Nuclear pharmacy technician
- Scenario checkup 10.2
- Remote/telepharmacy technician
- Pharmacy informatics
- Lead pharmacy technician
- Medication adherence or compliance technician
- Future opportunities for the pharmacy technician
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 11. Bulk repackaging and nonsterile compounding
- Scenario
- Bulk repackaging
- Bulk repackaging equipment
- Bulk repackaging techniques
- Documentation
- Scenario checkup 11.1
- Labeling and checking bulk repackaged medications
- Storage and stability
- Expiration dates and beyond-use dating
- Example 11.1: beyond-use dating
- Scenario checkup 11.2
- Long-term care packaging
- Nonsterile compounding
- History
- Use of nonsterile compounding
- Determining beyond-use dating for nonsterile compounds
- Compounding area
- Equipment
- Additional supplies
- Personal preparation
- Measuring liquids
- Preparing solutions
- Reconstituting premade suspensions
- Solids: Tablets, capsules, and lozenges
- Example 11.2: hard lozenge formula
- Example 11.3: soft lozenge formula
- Example 11.4: chewable lozenge formula
- Semisolids
- Example 11.5: soft opaque stick formulation
- Example 11.6: soft clear stick formulation
- Example 11.7: Hard stick formulation
- Scenario checkup 11.3
- Nasal preparations: Ointments, suspensions, gels, and solutions
- Packaging
- Stability
- Documentation
- Scenario checkup 11.4
- Safety
- Compounding professionalism
- Regulatory and quality control
- Veterinary medications
- Personnel training
- Compounding calculations
- Example 11.8: Increasing a formulation’s quantity
- Example 11.9: Reducing (decreasing) a formulation’s quantity
- Example 11.10: Reducing a formulation’s quantity
- Example 11.11: Determining partial dosage units
- Example 11.12: Changing stock solutions
- Example 11.13: Mixing products of different strengths
- Example 11.14: Performing solubility expressions
- Example 11.15: Converting units to weights
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 12. Aseptic technique and sterile compounding
- Scenario
- Terminology used in pharmacy
- Standard precautions for a health care worker
- Scenario checkup 12.1
- Supplies
- Syringes
- Needles
- Filters
- Stock levels
- Routes of administration
- Medication delivery systems
- Piggyback containers
- Continuous analgesic delivery systems
- Patient-controlled analgesia syringe system
- Patient-controlled analgesia cassette system
- United States Pharmacopeia <797>
- History of united states pharmacopeia <797>
- Sections of United States Pharmacopeia <797>
- Categories of CSPs levels
- Requirements for compounding
- Intravenous environment
- Primary engineering controls
- Aseptic technique
- Hand placement
- Use of ampules to prepare medications
- Scenario checkup 12.2
- Vials
- Scenario checkup 12.3
- Parenteral antibiotics and solutions
- Hyperalimentation
- Scenario checkup 12.4
- Electrolytes and additives
- Compatibility considerations of parenteral medications
- Components of a label for intravenous medication
- Disposal
- Chemotherapeutic agents
- Spills
- Scenario checkup 12.5
- Education and training
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 13. Pharmacy billing and inventory management
- Scenario
- Formulary and drug utilization
- Generic versus trade name drugs
- Types of private and group medical insurance plans
- Health maintenance organization
- Scenario checkup 13.1
- Preferred provider organization
- Government-managed insurance programs
- History of medicare and medicaid
- Current use of medicare and medicaid insurance
- Medicare
- Scenario checkup 13.2
- Medicaid
- Other government medical insurance plans: TRICARE and CHAMPVA
- Workers’ compensation
- Third-party billing
- Point of sale billing
- Prior authorization
- Scenario checkup 13.3
- Patient profiles
- Processing claims
- Claim problems
- Coverage expiration policy for drugs
- Limitation of plan exceeded
- Handling nonformulary drugs or noncovered national drug codes
- Filling a prescription too soon
- Nonidentification match
- Scenario checkup 13.4
- Resubmitting rejected claims
- Plan limitations
- Other methods of payment
- Self-pay
- Drug discount cards or drug coupon cards
- Private plans
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Inventory management
- Pharmacy stock
- Inventory control technician
- Ordering process
- Special orders
- Bar coding
- Automated dispensing systems
- Manual ordering
- New stock
- Proper storage
- Returns
- Suppliers
- Special considerations
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 14. Medication safety and error prevention
- Scenario
- Overview
- Five rights of medication safety
- What constitutes an error?
- Types of medication errors
- Scenario 1: Misinterpretation of physician’s orders
- Scenario 2: Missed dose
- Scenario 3: Wrong patient
- Scenario 4: Adverse effect
- Scenario 5: Noncompliance
- Responsibility for errors
- Case study 1
- Case study 2
- Case study 3
- Where errors are made
- Why errors occur
- Stress
- Distraction
- Multitasking
- Look-alike, sound-alike drugs
- Scenario checkup 14.1
- Risk evaluation and mitigation strategies
- Look-alike drug names and tall man lettering
- Drug labeling
- Excessive workload
- Drug interactions as a source of error
- Warfarin interactions
- Errors in the pharmacy
- Errors related to patient care
- Health care–associated infections
- Home health care errors
- Age-related errors
- Medication errors and the elderly
- Medical errors and pediatric patients
- Scenario checkup 14.2
- Medication errors that involve allergies
- Parenteral errors
- Sustained-released dosage form errors
- Necessity of reporting errors
- Pharmacist’s daily routine
- Computerized prescription order entry
- Reporting errors
- Strategies for reducing errors
- Common pharmacy technology
- Bar codes
- Scenario checkup 14.3
- Robot-Rx machines
- Hospital pharmacy automated dispensing system machines
- Community pharmacy automated dispensing systems
- Patient dose-specific orders
- United states pharmacopeia <797> regulations
- Medication reconciliation
- Quality assurance practices and risk management
- Risk management
- Other considerations
- Training and education
- Conclusion
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- References
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 15. Pharmacy operations management and workflow
- Scenario
- Overview
- Community pharmacy
- Case study 1
- Case study 2
- Case study 3
- Case study 4
- Institutional pharmacy
- Case study 5
- Improving efficiency techniques
- Getting started
- Do you remember these key points?
- Scenario follow-up
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- Section Two. Pharmacology and Medications
- 16. Drug classifications
- Classifying drugs
- Brand versus generic versus chemical names
- Tall man lettering in brand and generic medications versus the use of generic prefixes, suffixes, and infixes
- The tall man letters can be identical to the generic name stem
- The tall man letters can be different from the generic name stem
- Tall man letters intentionally appear in brand names, but generic name stems do not
- Medication characteristics
- Drug trials
- Four phases of drug testing
- Anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacokinetics: ADME
- Pharmacodynamics
- Drugs and receptors
- Agonists and antagonists
- Therapeutic index
- Drug interactions
- Other drug effects
- Therapeutic agents for the nervous system (Chapter 17)
- Therapeutic agents for the endocrine system (Chapter 18)
- Therapeutic agents for the musculoskeletal system (Chapter 19)
- Therapeutic agents for the cardiovascular system (Chapter 20)
- Therapeutic agents for the respiratory system (Chapter 21)
- Therapeutic agents for the gastrointestinal system (Chapter 22)
- Therapeutic agents for the renal system (Chapter 23)
- Therapeutic agents for the reproductive system (Chapter 24)
- Therapeutic agents for the immune system (Chapter 25)
- Therapeutic agents for eyes, ears, nose, and throat (Chapter 26)
- Therapeutic agents for the dermatologic system (Chapter 27)
- Therapeutic agents for the hematologic system (Chapter 28)
- Drug classifications by drug enforcement administration schedules I, II, III, IV, and V
- Schedule I
- Schedule II
- Schedule III
- Schedule IV
- Schedule V
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- 17. Therapeutic agents for the nervous system
- Nervous system introduction
- Neurons
- Nerve transmission
- Central nervous system
- Brain
- Spinal cord
- Cranial nerves
- Peripheral nervous system
- Autonomic system
- Somatic system
- Conditions of the nervous system and their treatments
- Diseases and conditions of the peripheral nervous system
- Diseases and conditions of the central nervous system
- Other conditions associated with the nervous system
- Schizophrenia
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- 18. Therapeutic agents for the endocrine system
- Anatomy of the endocrine system
- Description of hormones and glands
- Structure and function of hormones
- Mechanism of action
- Functions of the endocrine glands
- Hypothalamus
- Pituitary gland
- Pineal gland
- Thyroid gland
- Parathyroid glands
- Adrenal glands
- Pancreas
- Ovaries
- Testes
- Conditions of the endocrine system and their treatments
- Conditions of the pituitary gland and hypothalamus and their treatments
- Conditions of the thyroid gland and their treatment
- Conditions of the parathyroid glands and their treatment
- Conditions of the adrenal glands and their treatment
- Endocrine conditions of the pancreas and their treatments
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 19. Therapeutic agents for the musculoskeletal system
- Anatomy and physiology of the skeletal system
- Anatomy and physiology of skeletal muscle
- Common conditions affecting the musculoskeletal system
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Gout
- Other select medication classes that affect the musculoskeletal system
- Skeletal muscle relaxants
- Neuromuscular blockers
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 20. Therapeutic agents for the cardiovascular system
- Anatomy of the heart and vasculature system
- Oxygenation
- Cardiac conduction system
- Regulation of the heart and vasculature
- Common medication classes used to treat cardiac conditions
- Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors
- Angiotensin II receptor antagonists
- Entresto
- Renin inhibitors
- Beta-blockers
- Calcium channel blockers
- Conditions affecting the cardiovascular system
- Common conditions
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 21. Therapeutic agents for the respiratory system
- Structure and function of the respiratory system
- Upper respiratory system
- Lower respiratory system
- Respiration
- Gas exchange
- Disorders and conditions of the respiratory system
- Conditions of the upper respiratory system
- Conditions of the lower respiratory system
- Lung cancer
- Cystic fibrosis
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 22. Therapeutic agents for the gastrointestinal system
- Form and role of the gastrointestinal system
- Anatomy and physiology of the gastrointestinal system
- Ingestion
- Absorption
- Excretion
- Auxiliary organs
- Conditions affecting the gastrointestinal system
- Conditions mainly associated with the stomach
- Conditions mainly associated with the intestines
- Miscellaneous conditions of the gastrointestinal system
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 23. Therapeutic agents for the renal system
- Anatomy and physiology of the renal and urologic systems
- Function of the kidneys
- Nephron function
- Importance of electrolytes
- Conditions affecting the renal and urologic systems
- Common conditions associated with the renal and urologic systems
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 24. Therapeutic agents for the reproductive system
- Female reproductive system
- Conditions affecting the female reproductive system
- Common conditions
- Male reproductive system
- Conditions affecting the male reproductive system
- Common conditions
- Sexually transmitted diseases
- Hepatitis C
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 25. Therapeutic agents for the immune system
- Anatomy and physiology of the immune system
- Bone marrow
- Thymus
- Spleen
- Cells and mediators of the immune system
- The inflammatory response
- Autoimmune disorders
- Transplant rejection
- Immunizations
- Vaccine types
- Storage of vaccines
- Antitoxins and antivenins
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 26. Therapeutic agents for eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- The eyes (ophthalmic system)
- Anatomy and physiology of the eye
- Vision
- Conditions that affect the eye
- Common conditions
- The ears (auditory system)
- Anatomy and physiology of the ear
- Common conditions affecting the ear
- Nose and sinuses
- Anatomy and physiology of the nose and sinuses
- Common conditions affecting the nose and sinuses
- The throat
- Common conditions affecting the throat
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 27. Therapeutic agents for the dermatologic system
- Anatomy and physiology of the dermatologic system
- Skin
- Hair and nails
- Glands
- Common conditions affecting the dermatologic system
- Dermatologic conditions affecting the skin
- Common dermatologic conditions affecting the scalp and hair
- Common dermatologic conditions affecting the nails
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 28. Therapeutic agents for the hematologic system
- Anatomy and physiology of the hematologic system
- Major components of blood
- Conditions affecting the hematologic system
- Common conditions
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 29. Over-the-counter medications
- US food and drug administration regulations
- How a prescription drug becomes an over-the-counter drug
- Patient perceptions and safety of OTC medications and herbal supplements
- Common routes of administration for over-the-counter drugs
- Over-the-counter pain relievers and antipyretics
- Over-the-counter allergy treatments
- Over-the-counter products to treat cough and cold symptoms
- Over-the-counter products for insomnia
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease and indigestion
- Over-the-counter products for nausea and vomiting
- Over-the-counter agents for other gastrointestinal conditions
- Miscellaneous over-the-counter products for skin-related conditions
- Considerations for special populations
- Restricted over-the-counter products
- Urinary incontinence (overactive bladder)
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- 30. Complementary and alternative medicine
- What is complementary and alternative medicine?
- FDA regulation of dietary supplements
- Medical food
- Types of complementary and alternative medicine
- Natural products
- Mind and body medicine
- Manipulative and body-based practices
- Other complementary and alternative medicine practices
- Do you remember these key points?
- Technician’s corner
- Bibliography
- Websites referenced
- Appendix A: Top 200 prescription drugs
- Appendix B: Top herbal remedies
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 7
- Published: October 24, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 766
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443124884
- eBook ISBN: 9780443124891
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Karen Davis
Karen Davis is a Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT) Lyons, Georgia; Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South Carolina, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Pharmacy Technician Education Consultant, Society for the Education of Pharmacy Technicians (SEPhT), Lyons, Georgia; Pharmacy Technician Program Instructor, Florence Darlington Community College, Florence, South CarolinaAG
Anthony Guerra
Professor Anthony Guerra works at Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Des Moines Area Community College, Ankeny, Iowa