Transcription of Actual Body Weight (ABW).
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Lesson 4: Calculations used to determine patient-specific doses The right dose General Dosing InformationDosing is one of the most common calculation functions that you will perform during your career. Dosing involvesa series of steps, each of which will potentially contain some calculations for you to do. It starts with someguidelines, usually a dosing range and from that calculating what amount of drug the patient should receive for eachdose, and how much total drug you will thus need to fill the patient s prescription. Let s look at each Locate dosing guidelines. You decide that you need to calculate a patient-specific dose. You must first locatesome dosing guidelines. You will find these guidelines in many common texts, and later on in your pharmaceutics,pharmacology, and therapeutics courses. Dosing guidelines will usually give you a range to choose from. Some ofthese ranges will be total daily doses.
Ideal Body Weight (IBW) . This is the weight of our lean body mass (LBM): the weight we would all really like to be in our heart of hearts, and the weight goal that fills gyms and aerobic classes each January with New Year’s resoluteers. You need to know about this because many medications are dosed based on a patient’s IBW.
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