FASTtrack: Pharmaceutical Compounding and Dispensing Doody's Expert Review Review Questionnaire ISBN: 9780853697008 ISBN-10: 0853697000 Copyright: 2008 Edition: 1st Authors: Langley, Chris, Belcher, Dawn, Doody's Expert Review    Score: 87 Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. Reviewer: Patrick McDonnell,  PharmD  (Temple University School of Pharmacy) Description This book, part of the FASTtrack series, provides readers with a handy and useful guide to preparing accurate and effective pharmaceutical compounds and extemporaneous preparations. Purpose It is designed to be a summary of key points behind the preparation and manufacturing of key common extemporaneous dosage forms that pharmacists still may encounter in practice. These are worthy objectives, because even though most drugs are prepared in manufactured dosage forms, there still are occasions where pharmacists need to compound a dosage form. This book is a handy reference for these times. Audience This is certainly written for students of pharmacy, but it is also useful for working pharmacists as a handy reference when they need to recall how to prepare/compound different dosage forms. The authors are pharmacists from the United Kingdom who also work in academia. Features The book begins with a nice introduction to terminology and history of compounding, and then highlights the preparation techniques of the most common extemporaneous dosage forms, such as solutions, suspensions, emulsions, ointments, creams, powders, capsules, and suppositories. What is especially appealing is the way each chapter highlighting a dosage form follows a set template that includes the use of the product, safety, how to calculate the formula for preparation, the methods of preparation, choice of container and labeling requirements, and advice to the patient upon dispensing. Calculation examples and self assessment questions are a nice feature, particularly for pharmacy students. Assessment I was pleasantly surprised by this book. It certainly refreshed my memory of these topics from pharmacy school and it serves to remind us as pharmacists that this still is part of the job, albeit much less frequently. Because these preparations are traditional dosage forms, it would be unlikely that frequent updates of this book would be necessary. Review Questionnaire Range Question Score 1-10 Are the author's objectives met? 10 1-10 Rate the worthiness of those objectives. 8 1-5 Is this written at an appropriate level? 5 1-5 Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 5 1-5 Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) 4 1-5 Rate the authority of the authors. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient illustrations? 5 1-5 Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Rate the print quality of the illustrations. 4 1-5 Are there sufficient references? N/A 1-5 Rate the currency of the references. N/A 1-5 Rate the pertinence of the references. N/A 1-5 Rate the helpfulness of the index. 4 1-5 If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book N/A 1-10 Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? 8 1-10 If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? N/A ©2024 Doody Enterprises, Inc.