The Pharmacy Technician's Pocket Guide Drug Reference

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 pieces of drug information that a pharmacy technician seeks. For each of the most commonly prescribed drugs—including over 140 new to the market since the ninth edition—the book provides generic name (with pronunciations), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths.

 Key Features:

• Five pieces of information on approximately 1,500 drug products: Generic Name (with pronunciations), 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 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

 Regardless of their practice setting, pharmacy technicians will find the Pocket Drug Reference current, dependable, and useful.

Theresa A Echaiz, PharmD, BCPS, is a Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Consultant Pharmacist in Pasco, Washington. She completed a postgraduate year one pharmacy practice residency at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System, St. Louis, Missouri, and a postgraduate year two drug information residency at the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City.

 Joyce A. Generali, RPh, MS, FASHP, is Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence, Kansas.