Transcription of Actual Body Weight (ABW).
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Actual Body Weight (ABW).
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.
4. Calculate the range for each patient-specific dose. If you have a daily dosing guideline, and the patient is to receive more than one dose per day, you will need to divide the total daily dose by the number of doses/day. For instance, the patient who is to receive between 600 and 1000mg of amoxicillin per day is to have this medication
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