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The document provides several examples of calculating pediatric medication doses based on factors like age, weight, body surface area (BSA), and available formulations. Questions include determining doses of medications like Valium, Lorabid, MINOCIN, Pepcid, Ceclor, Keflex, Reglan, Klonopin, Chlorambucil, sulfisoxazole, enalapril, Elavil, and Nalfon for pediatric patients with given characteristics.

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The document provides several examples of calculating pediatric medication doses based on factors like age, weight, body surface area (BSA), and available formulations. Questions include determining doses of medications like Valium, Lorabid, MINOCIN, Pepcid, Ceclor, Keflex, Reglan, Klonopin, Chlorambucil, sulfisoxazole, enalapril, Elavil, and Nalfon for pediatric patients with given characteristics.

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Calculate the dose of Valium of a thirteen-month old child by the

Young’s Rule/ method if the adult dose is 10mg. Valium is available


as a 5mg/ 5mL oral solution. How would you administer this
medication to the child?

The product information on Lorabid shows that its adult dose is 200-
400mg q12h. What would be the range of this medication for a
patient born on Feb 9, 1993. How would you administer the drug if
the drug is available as 100mg/5mL suspension. Assume the
prescription was written on May 1996.

The usual dose of MINOCIN is 50mg qid. If it is to be prescribed for


a child born on May 20, 1990, how would you determine the
amount of the medication to be administered based upon Minocin
50mg/5mL liquid suspension. The prescription was dated May 1,
1996.

Pepcid liquid suspension is available in a stretch in a strength of


40mg/mL. The normal maintenance dose in an adult patient is
20mg qhs. How many mL of this medication would you administer
to an eight-year-old patient at bedtime?
For certain infections, the usual adult dose of Ceclor is 500 mg q8h.
For an eighteen-month-old child, how many mL of 125 mg/ 5 mL Keflex has a normal adult dose of 250mg, q6h. If this medication is
Ceclor suspension should be recommended? required for 14 days for a child weighing 46 lb, how many
fluidounces of Keflex 125mg/ 5mL should be dispensed?

How may mL of Reglan injection (5mg/mL) should be given to a


patient who is eight months old? The usual dose of In juvenile arthritis, Advil is required to be given in a dose of
Metoclopramide Hydrochloride is 10 mg. 30mg/kg/day. How many mL of the Advil suspension (100mg/5mL
should be given to a child weighing 74lbs?

The usual maintenance dose of Klonopin for children is


0.1mg/kg/day in three divided doses. For a child weighing 66lb, how
many Klonopin 1 mg tablets should be dispensed if the medication
required for 10 days?

A hospital pharmacist is called to a pediatric nursing station to calculate the


quantity of an injection to administer to a pediatric patient. The daily dose
of the injection for the child’s weight is stated as 15 mg/kg/day, divided into
three equal portions. The child weighs 10 kg. The injection contains 5
mg/mL of the prescribed drug. How many milliliters of injection should be
administered per dose of the drug?
The usual initial dose of Chlorambucil is 150 mcg/kg of body weight.
How many milligrams should be administered to a person weighing
154 lb.?

The usual dose of sulfisoxazole for infants over 2 months of


age and children is 60 to 75 mg/kg of body weight. What
would be the usual range for a child weighing 44 lb.?

A pediatric patient is being administered enalaprilat (VASOTEC IV)


every 12 hours by intravenous injection to manage hypertension
and possible heart failure. Based on a dose of 5 mcg/kg, the patient
is receiving 55 mcg of enalaprilat per dose. The physician wishes to
convert the patient to oral enalapril at a dosage of 100 mcg/kg as a
single daily dose. The standard procedure is to crush a 2.5-mg
tablet of enalapril, mix with sterile water to make 12.5 mL, and
administer the appropriate dose using a calibrated oral dispenser.
Calculate the dose, in milliliters, to be administered to this patient.
The height of the child is 120 cm and the weight is 130lb. The usual
adult dose of Elavil (Amitriptyline HCl) is 75mg/day. What would be
the dose for the child based on the BSA? Determine the BSA using
the NOMOGRAM and using BSA equation.
If the usual adult dose of a drug is 120 mg, what would be
the dose based on BSA for a person measuring 6 ft tall and
weighing 200lb?

The usual pediatric dose of a drug is stated as 25 mg/m2.


Using the nomogram, calculate the dose for a child weighing
18 kg and measuring 82 cm in height.

If the dose of a drug is 5 mg/m2, what would be the


dose for a patient with a BSA of 1.9 m2?

What should be the size of the dose if NALFON for an


arthritic patient with a body surface area of 0.87 m2?
The usual adult dose of Nalfon is 600 mg tid.

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