Hassan Aly
Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Nile of Hope Pediatric hospital. Former Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Cairo University Specialized Pediatric Hospital (Abo-Elreesh Elyabany).

Post cardiac surgery it is not required to use aPTT monitoring for heparin infusion as it is used as a prophylaxis if we have stent or weak pulsation in lower limbs. It is used then for short term and...

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You can use nomogram methode also Pediatric dose = BSA in m2/divided by 1.73 x adult dose Reference https://www.austincc.edu/rxsucces/ped3.html

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Recent RCT in timing of administration of tpn on day 1 and day 8 was in favour of day 8 in picu but still timing in some cases with clinical assessments if nutritional status,energy requirements, physiological...

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The creatinine clearance is a widely used test to estimate the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) [1,2]. Creatinine is derived from the metabolism of creatine in skeletal muscle and from dietary meat; it...

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Vancomycin dosing depends mainly on the indication and route of administration If oral administration for c diff infection maximun daily dose 2000 mg/day Sever infection iv dosing dosing depends on clinical...

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