Cover -- Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction to the FASTtrack series -- Preface -- About the author -- Chapter 1: Pharmaceutical solutions for administration to the gastrointestinal tract -- General description -- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmaceutical solutions for oral administration -- Drug solubility -- Excipients used in pharmaceutical solutions for oral administration -- Worked example -- Types of pharmaceutical solutions designed for administration to the gastrointestinal tract -- Quality control of pharmaceutical solutions -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 2: Pharmaceutical disperse systems 1: suspensions - general principles and the formulation of suspensions for oral administration -- General description -- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmaceutical suspensions -- The physical stability of pharmaceutical suspensions -- Formulation considerations for orally administered suspension formulations -- Excipients used in the formulation of suspensions for oral administration -- Quality control of pharmaceutical suspensions for oral administration -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 3: Pharmaceutical disperse systems 2: emulsions and creams -- General description -- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmaceutical emulsions -- Emulsion instability and theories of emulsification -- Formulation of pharmaceutical emulsions -- Excipients used in pharmaceutical emulsions -- Worked example -- Manufacture of emulsions -- Quality control of emulsions and creams -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 4: Pharmaceutical disperse systems 3: ointments, pastes, lotions, gels and related formulations -- Introduction -- Advantages and disadvantages of pharmaceutical ointments, pastes, lotions, liniments, collodions and gels -- Pharmaceutical ointments and pastes.

Pharmaceutical lotions, liniments, collodions and paints -- Pharmaceutical gels -- Quality control of ointments, pastes, lotions, gels and related formulations -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 5: Parenteral formulations -- General description -- Routes of parenteral administration -- Advantages and disadvantages of parenteral formulations -- Formulation considerations for parenteral formulations -- Surface-active agents -- Worked examples -- Further reading -- Quality control of parenterals -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 6: Ocular, nasal and otic dosage forms -- Introduction -- Advantages and disadvantages of ocular dosage forms -- Administration of therapeutic agents to the eye -- Nasal formulations -- Otic formulations -- Quality control of ocular, nasal and otic products -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 7: Vaginal and rectal dosage forms -- Introduction -- Rectal dosage forms -- Worked examples -- Vaginal dosage forms -- Quality control of rectal and vaginal products -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 8: Respiratory dosage forms -- Introduction -- Advantages and disadvantages of respiratory drug delivery -- Physiology of the respiratory tract -- Factors affecting the deposition of particles/droplets within the respiratory tract -- Mechanisms of particle deposition within the respiratory tract -- Formulation of respiratory dosage forms -- Quality control of respiratory products -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 9: Solid-dosage forms 1: tablets -- Introduction -- Advantages and disadvantages of tablets as dosage forms -- Manufacture of tablets -- Tablet defects -- Post-processing effects on tablet properties -- Coating of tablets -- Quality control of tablets -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 10: Solid-dosage forms 2: capsules -- Introduction -- Advantages and disadvantages of capsule formulations.

Materials and manufacture of capsules -- Formulation considerations for hard gelatin capsules -- Soft gelatin capsules -- Quality control of capsules -- Multiple choice questions -- Chapter 11: Introduction to pharmaceutical engineering -- General introduction -- Mixing of pharmaceutical products -- Filtration of pharmaceutical products -- Milling of pharmaceutical systems -- Drying of pharmaceutical systems -- Multiple choice questions -- Multiple choice answers -- Index.

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FASTtrack: Pharmaceutics - Dosage Form and Design removes the complexity from the major dosage forms that are commonly encountered by pharmacists in professional practice.