Drug References
A reference to identify a random tablet on the floor.
What is Lexicomp Drug I.D.?
The recommended weight-based dose of dexamethasone for the indication of croup.
What is 0.6 mg/kg?
A newborn baby is delivered at 34 weeks. Your team wants to start gentamicin for empiric therapy on DOL 1. The dose you would recommend to your team.
What is 5 mg/kg/dose IV q36hours?
The phase of the medication staging process in which most medication errors occur.
What is ordering/prescribing?
The number of days in which a baby is considered a neonate.
What is 0-28 days?
Hardcopy reference book that includes information on 238 parental medications used in pediatric patients. It is published every 3 years by ASHP.
What is Pediatric Injectable Drugs: THE TEDDY BEAR BOOK?
The route(s) of administration of ceftriaxone.
What is IV or IM?
A 115 kg patient is seen in the emergency department for appendicitis. Surgery decides to give a dose of ceftriaxone IV and metronidazole IV for perforated appendicitis. The recommended dose of ceftriaxone based on the patient's weight using 50 mg/kg.
50% of medications do not have ______ approval for use in prediatrics.
What is FDA?
The equation used to calculate creatinine clearance in pediatric patients.
What is the Bedside Schwartz GFR Calculator?
A drug reference that provides information regarding drugs during pregnancy and in breastfeeding women.
What is the Briggs - Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation?
A 4 year old patient is discharged on an oral liquid suspension of 4 mL per dose. The device you would recommend to ensure the highest level of accuracy in home administration of the drug.
What is an oral syringe?
A medical student is asking you about amoxicillin dosing. The indications to recommend using 90 mg/kg/day (high dose) over the 45 mg/kg/day (standard dose) amoxicillin.
What are otitis media, community acquired pneumonia, and rhinosinusitis?
An injury, large or small, caused by the use (including non-use) of a drug. This may be as harmless as a drug rash or as serious as death.
What is an Adverse Drug Event (ADE)?
The age in weeks since the last menstrual cycle to date of birth.
What is gestational age?
An 11-year old boy is diagnosed with Pneumocystis pneumonia. The team asks you what the appropriate duration of therapy for this infection. You could use this hardcopy reference to look up the answer.
What is the Red Book?
The recommended dose of acetaminophen for children.
What is 10-15 mg/kg/dose q4-6 hours?
Your team wants to treat a 20 month old with a UTI using sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim. The team asks you what ingredient of this medication should they use to calculate the weight-based dose.
What is trimethoprim?
Barcode medication scanning helps decrease the occurrence of this type of error.
What is an administration error?
Phase of medication staging to help in an overdose patient.
What is half-life elimination?
A reference you would use to look up to see if you can infuse three medications together.
What is Trissel's IV Compatibility?
A child weighs 88 pounds is prescribed 3 mg/kg of a drug. The drug is available in a 15 mg/mL elixir. The patient will receive ____ mL.
What is 8 mL?
A 17 year old female comes in with painful urination, increased yellow discharge, and abdominal pain. Your physician is suspecting gonorrhea. The patient is 52 kg. The dose and route of ceftriaxone.
What is 500 mg IM?
One of the recommendations to reduce medication errors is to use the five rights. These are the five rights of medication therapy.
What are the right patient, the right drug, the right dose, the right route, and the right time?
A good resource to determine if a drug can be crushed or not.