Dosing Weight for Titratable Infusions in EPIC

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Lyn Tucker
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Dosing Weight for Titratable Infusions in EPIC

Hello,

Our institution has been having issues with which weight is being used for titratable infusions in EPIC. For institutions that have EPIC, which weight is assigned for titratable infusions? If a dosing weight is used, who is responsible for inputting that weight in the flowsheet (i.e. nursing or pharmacy)?

We especially run into discrepancies when our heparin infusion orders are modified and the current weight is automatically assigned instead of the original weight that the nurse was previously using and programming into the smart pump.

Thanks in advance,
Lyn

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