Pediatric code medications

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Wed, 07/08/2020 - 16:06
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Diane Simko
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Pediatric code medications

Hello,

Wondering what other institutions allow for documentation of pediatric medications given in a code? My institution uses Epic and code team staff is asking to allow documentation in the Code Narrator to be entered as mL as this is what is used for the dose given when using Broselow tape. Our institution policy indicates pediatric medications must be weight-based dosing but does not specify any outliers for code scenarios.

Thank you for your input!

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