Aluminum in a PN Order
Upper bound on the aluminum in a daily parenteral nutrition bag, from each component's volume and label figure.
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Example
- Patient weight
- 1.2
- Weight unit
- kg
- Components, one per line
- Amino acids 10%, 60, 25 Dextrose 50%, 40, 600 Potassium phosphates, 1, 900 Calcium gluconate, 4, 400
Result: No more than 23.33 mcg/kg/day of aluminum (28 mcg/day): over 5 mcg/kg/day, against the 4 to 5 the labeling warning names.
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What you enter
- Patient weight
- Weight unit
- Components, one per line: name, mL, label aluminum in mcg/L
How this is calculated
Citation
21 CFR 201.323: large-volume parenterals for TPN must not exceed 25 mcg/L of aluminum (a); other containers state the maximum at expiry (c), (d); the labeling warning names more than 4 to 5 mcg/kg/day (e). Read the source ↗
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