The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference - APhA Pharmacy Technician Training Series

Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, the completely revised new edition of The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main components of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of the most commonly prescribed drugs—including more than 140 new to the market since the ninth edition—the book provides generic names (with pronunciation), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths. Regardless of their practice setting, pharmacy technicians will and the Pocket Drug Reference current, dependable, and useful.

KEY FEATURES:

• Five components of information on approximately 1,500 drug products: Generic Names (with pronunciation), Trade Names, Therapeutic Class, General Uses, and Dosage Forms/Strengths
The top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, most oral and topical products approved by the FDA since 1997, plus more than 400 of the top parenteral productsTrade-name IndexA top-200 drugs table and brief appendices showing the controlled substance schedules, common abbreviations used in prescriptions, and common conversions