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.
these ranges will be total daily doses. For instance the pediatric guidelines for dosing amoxicillin, an antibiotic, for an ear infection, are 30-50 mg/kg/day, with the total daily dose given as three separate doses during the day. Other ranges will be per-dose. The adult dosing guidelines for gentamicin (an antibiotic), for instance are 1.5-2.0
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