Pediatric Doses Calculations

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Specializes in none, still looking.

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

Thanks

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Specializes in none, still looking.

Anybody??

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Specializes in PICU.

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.

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Specializes in er, pediatric er.

lexi-comp is a good one.

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

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

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:uhoh3:

Anybody??

I need help with this also

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Specializes in Pediatric Rehabilitation.

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

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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

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