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Hey Morte:
What units of measure?? The 1:1000?? I'm thinking 1part epinephrine to 1000 parts NaCl??
0.05ml/kg/dose in 2-3 ml of NaCl .. Usual dose is 0.25ml to 0.5 ml/dose..
all the questions said was 1:1000 give 5mls q1hr PRN??
Thanks for the help
could you clarify your units of measure, please....
Hey Morte:What units of measure?? The 1:1000?? I'm thinking 1part epinephrine to 1000 parts NaCl??
0.05ml/kg/dose in 2-3 ml of NaCl .. Usual dose is 0.25ml to 0.5 ml/dose..
all the questions said was 1:1000 give 5mls q1hr PRN??
Thanks for the help
usually, med orders are written MG per kg not ML per kg....what, exactly, is the doctors order?
0.05ml/kg/dose in 2-3 ml of NaCl via nebulizer upto q1hr prn (usually .25 - .5ml/dose) that is what it said in the drug book..
for example if someone weighted 12kg the max safe dose would be
0.05 X 12 = 0.6ml..
If an order stated 5ml q1hr PRN??? This would seem to be 10x the recommended dose..??
I would assume that this means that you add the 0.6 mL of the epinephrine to 5mL of saline.
pharho
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Hello:
I need to do a dosage calculation for epinephrine in a nebulizer and it seems like the doc is prescribing 10x the recommended dose...
Here is the info
epinephrine: 1:1000
0.05ml/kg/dose in 2-3 ml of NaCl via nebulizer upto q1hr prn (usually .25 - .5ml/dose) that is what it said in the drug book..
for example if someone weighted 12kg the max safe dose would be
0.05 X 12 = 0.6ml..
If an order stated 5ml q1hr PRN??? This would seem to be 10x the recommended dose..??
Can anyone point out where I may be going wrong or how to do this calculation for nebulizer epinephrine
Thanks