Compounding Sterile Preparations, 3rd edition

Empower your staff to improve safety, quality and compliance with the help of new guidelines and standards. We’ve updated every chapter of this popular review of the fundamentals of preparing sterile products in hospital, home-care, and community pharmacy settings to reflect the most recent revisions to USP <797>. Included are the latest guidelines for the compounding process, quality assurance methods, and comprehensive coverage of all aspects of the dispensing process. Chapters new to this edition focus on gap analysis and action plans, safe use of automatic compounding devices, cleaning and disinfecting, radiopharmaceuticals as CSPs, and allergen extracts as CSPs. Comprehensive documentation for the guidelines is included in the appendices.