Practical Pharmaceutics (2^nd Ed., 2nd ed. 2023) An International Guideline for the Preparation, Care and Use of Medicinal Products

Practical Pharmaceutics contains essential knowledge on the preparation, quality control, logistics, dispensing and use of medicines. It features chapters written by experienced pharmacists and scientists working in hospitals, academia and industry throughout Europe, including practical examples as well as information on current GMP and GMP-based guidelines and EU-legislation. In this second edition all chapters have been updated with numerous new as well as didactically revised illustrations and tables. A completely new chapter about therapeutic proteins and Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products was added.

From prescription to production, from usage instructions to procurement and the impact of medicines on the environment, the book provides step-by-step coverage that will help a wide range of readers, students as well as professionals. It offers product knowledge for all pharmacists working directly with patients and it will enable them to make the required medicine available, to store medicines properly, to adapt medicines if necessary and to dispense medicines with the appropriate information for patients as well as caregivers about product care and how to maintain the quality of the product. The basic knowledge presented in the book will also be valuable for industrial pharmacists to remind and focus them on the application of the medicines manufactured.

The basic and practical knowledge on the design, preparation and quality management of medicines can directly be applied by the pharmacists whose main duty is production in community and hospital pharmacies and in industry. Undergraduate as well as graduate pharmacy students will find knowledge presented in a coherent way and fully supported with relevant examples.

Practical Pharmaceutics has become a reliable and recognised source for the acquisition of pharmaceutical-technological knowledge. The book is used in the curriculum of a number of international universities and schools of Pharmacy.

Paul Le Brun, PharmD, PhD, is hospital pharmacist and clinical pharmacologist of the Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Toxicology of Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands since 2017. He also teaches pharmacy students in quality, preparation and innovative medicines as associate professor at the university of Leiden.

Paul obtained his degree in pharmacy from the Groningen University in 1982. He started his career at the Dutch Laboratory of Pharmacists (LNA), department of the Royal Dutch Association of Pharmacists (KNMP). From 1985 until 1988 he was trained and worked as a hospital pharmacist in the Central Hospital Pharmacy of The Hague. He joined Merck Sharp&Dohme as production pharmacist from 1989 to 1992. From 1992 until 2017 he was director of production of the Central Hospital Pharmacy in The Hague combined with clinical tasks in Haga teaching hospital.

In 2001 he obtained his PhD: "Optimization of antibiotic inhalation therapy in Cystic Fibrosis.Studies on nebulized tobramycin. Development of a colistin dry powder inhaler system. The research was valued in 2000 with the KNMP Innovation Award. To date, his main research themes are Aseptic preparation and Medicinal product development.

Paul published numerous scientific papers and was author/editor of the first edition of Practical Pharmaceutics.Sylvie Crauste-Manciet obtained her degree in Pharmacy (PharmD) in 1993, her PhD in 1997 and accreditation to supervise research (HDR) in 2013 from the University of Paris Descartes, France. Until 1999, she combines hospital pharmacy and academic activities as specialist in pharmaceutical technologies for preparation of sterile and not sterile drugs for hospitalized patients e.g. cytotoxic drugs, parenteral nutrition, paediatric capsules in Paris, Bordeaux and she recently moved to Angers. As professor of pharmaceutical technologies, she developed specific research in nanosytems design and characterization firstly at UPCGI Laboratory,