Jamesryan

What would your answer be for the question?

So for that question what amount of medication would you administer?

I'm needing help with a pediatric dosage calculation. Here's the question the doctor orders Tylenol 15mg/kg for a 8lb 3 oz infant available amount of medication is 160mg/5ml how many ml of medication will the child receive? And with it being an infant would you round the final answer to the hundredths place? Because I've been reading that with pediatric dosage amounts greater than 1 ml you round to the hundredths place but in other places I've seen the amount for pediatric doses rounded to the tenth ml

I'm referring to a rule I've read in my text that says volumes for liquid medication less than 1 ml round nearest hundredth ml and volume greater than 1 ml round to nearest tenth ml. I just wanted to know if it applies to the pediatric population

I'm just asking because I'm still confused on the rules. I would assume it's difficult to draw up 3.347 ml so I would just round that amount to 3.3ml but I'm not sure if it need to be rounded to the hundredth ml for a pediatric patient?

When calculating weight based oral liquid medication dosage for a child. Is the final answer rounded to the nearest tenth ml or the nearest hundredth ml. Like if the amount comes out to be 3.347 mls would you administer 3.3 ml or 3.35 ml?

I've read some literature for pediatric oral doses that say volume greater than 1ml round to the hundredth and others say round to the tenth. Also some literature tells you to round child's weight to nearest tenth kg before beginning calculation and other literature states round weight to the hundredth kg. It just seems confusing to me

So if a pediatric oral medication dose for just say an antibiotic was to administer 5.3 ml how you administer that amount?

I've never seen a 5ml syringe with 0.1ml increments

You could draw up 4ml in a 5ml syringe and then draw up 0.1ml in a 3ml syringe?

Yes that's true so what are you supposed to do in that scenario?

Ok so it would be appropriate to round a oral liquid dose greater than 1ml to the nearest tenth ml in a pediatric patient?

Wouldn't you round the dose to 2.7ml?

The reason I rounded my answer because I read that for amounts greater than 1 ml round to the nearest tenth ml and amounts less than 1 ml round to the nearest hundredth ml. I just want to know if that applies to pediatric medication administration

I'm a nursing student taking a dosage calculation class this summer. I was working some pediatric weight based problems for oral liquid medications example a 2 year old patient with fever is ordered Tylenol 15mg/kg the patient weighs 12.3 kg and amount of Tylenol available is 160mg/5 ml how many ml would you give. My answer came out to be 5.765 ml but I it be rounded to 5.8 ml. Or should you round it to 5.77 ml? Also with IM and IV pediatric medications should they be rounded to the tenths place?