Beginners Meds
What injections are included in the Core 4?
What are their doses?
Unasyn 30mg/kg
Metronidazole 15mg/kg
Cerenia 1-2mg/kg
Famotidine 1mg/kg
What 3 things do we check when evaluating a patient that needs CPR?
Pulse
Respirations
Airway
HBC
Hit by Car
A 24kg Boxer needs a loading dose of Methocarbamol. What would be his dose?
10.56mLs
What is the dose for Methocarbamol?
Loading dose 44mg/kg
Regular dose 22mg/kg
When you stop compressions to switch and your ECG shows asystole what do you do next?
Continue compressions and administer drugs
AD
Right Ear
What is his dose?
0.53mLs
What is the dose for Carprofen?
What blood work do we usually run before prescribing this medication? Why?
12 hour dose 2.2mg/kg
24 hour dose 4.4mg/kg
EPOC
Kidneys
How do you tell if the ECG rhythm is Ventricular Tachycardia?
Repeatable rhythm, no pulse, and heart rate is over 200.
ECG
Electrocardiogram
A 70kg Great Dane needs to be given Core 4.
What are his medications and their doses?
Unasyn 14mLs
Famotidine 7mLs
Cerenia 14mLs
Metronidazole 210mLs
What is the dose for Diphenhydramine?
What route is it given? Why?
2mg/kg
IM
Seizures
What is a medication that we can use to help with ventricular tachycardia?
Lidocaine
PU/PD
Polyuria/Polydipsia
A 2.4kg DSH needs Onsior injection.
What is her dose?
0.24mLs
What is the dose for Onsior?
What route is it given?
2mg/kg
SQ
If you are doing CPR alone how may compressions and breaths are given each round?
30 compressions
2 breaths
GDV
Gastric Dilation-Volvulus
A 16kg German Shorthaired Pointer is going home with oral Clavamox for 2 weeks.
What would be his dose and how would the label read?
What quantity?
Clavamox 250mg
Give 1 tablet by mouth twice daily (every 12 hours) with food until gone.
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