What's the max dose Pitocin is allowed at your hospital?

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    CA - max dose 20 mU/min
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  3. Alberta (my hospital at least!) 20 mu/min with occasional higher doses at the OBs discretion.
  4. I'm from NJ, at my hospital the max dose is 30 mu/min.... it's very rare that we ever reach that number though. In my experience so far I have never reached 30, but that's the max dose per our hospital policy.
  5. our policy's max is 20mu/min, and rarely at physicians discretion can we go above that. happens maybe once a year. Honestly, we rarely have to go above 12 and with good bishops scores, rarely above 8.
    gone are the days of "pit em til they puke", thank God for that!
  6. Ca also- 20mu/min here is the max. Never gone above 15
  7. Utah- the limit at our hospital is 20 mu, with the OB able to order doses over that amount if desired. As others have stated, this is pretty rare, though.
  8. Interesting, I've maxed at 20 mU/min and have had to turn off pit and restart at a later time.
  9. Max @ 42mU/min @ my facility and we occasionally do hit this max. But then again we have a lot of primip pretermers with severe PreE on Mag so labor is usually extremely slow going. (less pit receptors)

    TX
  10. Quote from sunshineLDRN
    Max @ 42mU/min @ my facility and we occasionally do hit this max. But then again we have a lot of primip pretermers with severe PreE on Mag so labor is usually extremely slow going. (less pit receptors)

    TX
    That's strange! I've always noticed to my true pre-e pts tended to have really quick labours no matter what their gestation or parity. Sometimes just a prostin or cervidil is enough to get them delivered!
  11. That interesting. Do you guys use Mag Sulfate for seizure prophylaxis? We do so maybe that's the diff. Mag Sulfate being a tocolytic can prolong their labor. We also don't use Cervidil or Prostin ( Only vaginally for induction of a fetal demise). Our first go to is usually 100mcg Misoprostil orally if they meet the criteria by our protocol (max of 2 doses). Probably not as effective as vaginal cervidil.

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