#11741 - 08/20/06 02:46 AM
Phergan dose change
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John Donohoe
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In the latest directive from Dr. Racht, the Phergan dose has been lowered. Does anyone have some insight or reason why we have made this change? I talked to a few RN's today and the said it not a common dose of 6.25mg, but they have used it before when pt are small in size. I have looked on-line and keep find our old dosing of 12.5mg for n/v. If anybody knows plz share or tell me where I can look up and read the info. I'm already planning calling a SrTO on Monday while at work and see if they can shed some light on my head.  
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#11742 - 08/20/06 06:05 AM
Re: Phergan dose change
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Ryan Fouts
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John,
Check out the education update link at the ATCOMD website. Here is a link to the file:
Educational Update 8/17/2006
This will give the rationale behind all of the changes. Hope this helps.
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#11743 - 08/20/06 07:21 AM
Re: Phergan dose change
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Michael Mcdaniel
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I saw a sign at Seton, a yellow paper sign outside the x-ray room across from the billing folks at the ambulance entrance, that gave some reasons why Seton has adopted the same phenergan dose.
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#11745 - 08/21/06 12:54 AM
Re: Phergan dose change
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Ryan Fouts
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There is a dept in Idaho that is pretty progressive medically that uses the same 6.25mg dose as we have now adopted, and I think their reasoning was consistent with the reasoning behind our change. The dept. is Ada County EMS, a third service county dept. similar in some ways to our...much smaller and slower, though.
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