Pediatric Dosing when at adult weight

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Thu, 11/14/2019 - 08:47
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Randi Trope
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Pediatric Dosing when at adult weight

For pediatric ICU patients (in a pediatric unit) on continuous infusions who are of an adult weight ---do you continue to use weight based dosing or do you switch to non-weight based (i.e. mg/hour)? At what weight do you convert and is it different for different medications?

If it is different for different medication or you switch to non-weight based do you find that the nurses find this more confusing?

Please let me also know where you work so I can use this information for potential practice change at my new institution.

Thanks.

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