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Calculation Skills

Calculation Skills: keeping it simple

Try the following drug calculations and remember that Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727] once said ‘Truth [the answer] is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of...

Calculation Skills: keeping it simple - answers

Drug A is available in 250 microgram tablets. Your patient requires 2 mg twice daily. How many tablets will the patient require each day? .

Prescribing emollients

Complete the table (Table 2) with the quantity of emollient to prescribe for eczema for one month .

Prescribing emollients: answers

Complete the table (Table 2, page 484) with the quantity of emollient to prescribe for eczema for one month..

Shelf lives of medication

What is the rate (in micrograms per day) that a tablet will lose active ingredient, as it degrades? .

Shelf lives of medication (answers)

What is the rate (in micrograms per day) that a tablet will lose active ingredient, as it degrades? .

Remote prescribing

James is 65 years old and currently shielding. You have managed this patient for many years in primary care and know his condition and treatment regime well. You undertake a telephone consultation...

Alternate uses for pancreatic hormones

Calculate their exposure to propranolol in mg/kg. .

Alternate uses for pancreatic hormones (ANSWERS)

Calculate their exposure to propranolol in mg/kg. .

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