[willdgate]

Are there websites that showed how to calculate SAFE DOSE RANGE or dosage meds for pediatrics. Anybody know of any??

Thanks

[willdgate]

Anybody??

[sara52g]

You can check out this website:
http://www.medcalc.com/pedidose.html
but you would have to know for each specific medication what would be the appropriate weight-based dose. For example, tylenol is 10-15 mg/kg/dose, plug in the weight in the website and you'll get your dose.
To get your drug/dosage info i dont know of any websites, but the Harriet Lane Handbook is a great and widely used peds drug guide that will give you all of that.

[TNnurse05]

lexi-comp is a good one.

[Elvish]

I second the use of Harriet Lane. We used it all the time in my former peds job.

[tcarol]

Originally Posted by willdgate

Anybody??

I need help with this also

[nurs4kids]

We use Lexi-comp as well. Another good one is Micromedex.

[peds77]

well i use this simple calculation

dose wanted x ml per mg on bottle Divided by mg on bottle
ex. Zantac comes 150mg/10 cc
Order reads give 3mg zantac po bid
3 x 10 = 30 30 divided by 150 = 0.2 cc po bid