Product Overview
Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, The Pharmacy Technicians Pocket Drug Reference contains the five main pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of about 1,400 of the most commonly prescribed drugsincluding more than 100 drugs new to the market since the eighth editionthe 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:
- Five pieces of information on each of about 1,400 drug products: Generic Name (with pronunciation), Trade Name(s), Therapeutic Class, General Use(s), 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 products
- Trade name index
- A top-200 drugs table and brief appendices showing the controlled substance schedules, common abbreviations used in prescriptions, and common conversions
