Colorado Down and Dirty Dopamine Dose Ditty - EMT City
2009年1月8日 · But yeh for the most part it is quick and easy way to do a dopamine drip at 0300. You will get "around or approximately" 5mcg/kg doing it that way. The even easier way was to take their weight in lbs and start your drip at whatever the first two numbers are...I mean after all we are approximating the rate here. 220lb = 22 gtts. 180lb = 18gtts
Dopamine Drip calculation - Patient Care - EMT City
2011年12月13日 · Using the same concentration of dopamine, and only for dose of 5mcgs/min, take the weight and then subtract 2 from the tens column. This will give you a very close drip rate for 5 mcgs. Example: Patient states weighs 240 pounds. With the 24, subtract 2 making it 22. This is what you set your drip rate (60gtt set) to, 22 gtts a minute.
Epi and Dopamine drip cal - General EMS Discussion - EMT City
2010年8月21日 · The result from this equation is your drip rate per minute. CHEATS. Dopamine (only for standard (1600 mcg/ml) bags): Take the patient's weight in pounds, drop the last digit (so a patient with a weight of 210 lbs would turn into 21), then subtract 2 (which would make 19). That is your drip rate per minute for 5 mcg/kg/min on a 50 kg patient.
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Epi drip - Patient Care - EMT City
2008年5月22日 · I am re-writing our protocol for cardiogenic shock. Our medical director wants me to include Dobutamine (preload), Dopamine (afterload) and Epi drip for use of an increased vasopressor, and for bradycardia. R/r 911
Manually setting drip rates - Patient Care - EMT City
2010年2月24日 · Even with the metronome and as controlled conditions as I can create, I'm having difficulty keeping the drip rate within 5 and 10 percent of the desired dose. For example, if I want to set up a 5 mcg/kg/minute dopamine infusion …
Colorado Down and Dirty Dopamine Dose Ditty - EMT City
2009年1月8日 · Down & Dirty Dopamine Drip with 1600ug bag: Patient weight in Kg divided by 27. Multiply result by how much you want to give ; 5mcg, 10mcg etc. Answer = gtts/min. Better to have a pump or dial-a flow though! Rgrds, Chute
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2007年12月15日 · I'm sure this isn't new to the more experienced members of this forum, but I recently came across a very easy way to calculate dopamine drip rates. Take the pt's weight in pounds. Drop the last number and subtract the first number from the number remaining, multiply by 2. For example, you have a 100 kg pt. Convert to pounds = 220.
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Medication Errors...and how they effect you as a provider
2014年7月19日 · It is pretty hard to overdose a patient in the EMS field, unless you leave the Dopamine or Lidocaine drip running wide open. With that being said, it is still possible to have dosing errors, or wrong medication errors due to packaging being similar.