weight based medication drips
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For your pediatric patients that weigh over 50 kg, do you continue to run medication drips at weight based doses?
example:
18 y.o. weighs 54kg. versed drip at 0.1mg/kg/hr or 5.4mg/hr?
There used to be a standard in my picu for patients over 50kg, the drips would not be weight based. (They would be run as adult doses due to their size). They are now trying to make them ALL weight based-no exceptions. I work in a unit that is pedi and adult ICU. Not all nurses are trained for pedi and will take the larger kids at times. They feel uncomfortable running pedi doses on teens that are over 50kg.
what are the standards in your PICU based on weight?