The Pharmacy Technician’s Pocket Drug Reference

The Pharmacy Technician’s Pocket Drug Reference by Theresa Echaíz is a practical resource published by the American Pharmacists Association in December 2022. This 12th edition, comprising 473 pages, is designed to fit comfortably in a lab coat pocket, making it an accessible tool for pharmacy technicians seeking essential drug information.
This edition presents five main components of drug information for approximately 1,500 commonly prescribed drugs, including generic names with pronunciations, trade names, therapeutic classes, FDA-approved uses, and dosage forms. Readers will find detailed information on the top 200 oral and topical products by retail sales, as well as a selection of parenteral products. Additional features include a trade-name index, a table of the top 200 drugs, and appendices covering controlled substance schedules and common prescription abbreviations. This reference aims to provide pharmacy technicians with current and reliable information regardless of their practice setting.
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Small and light enough to carry comfortably in a lab coat pocket, this newly revised 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, this book provides generic names (with pronunciations), trade names, therapeutic classes, general FDA-approved therapeutic uses, and commercially available dosage forms/strengths. Key Features, Five components of information on approximately 1,500 drug products: Generic Names (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.
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