Premixed PN Bag Against Its Label Maximum
Sets the rate of a premixed parenteral nutrition bag, in mL/kg/hour, beside the adult maximum on its FDA label.
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Example
- Formulation
- Clinimix E 5/15
- Patient weight
- 70
- Weight unit
- kg
- Rate
- 100 mL/hour
Result: 1.429 mL/kg/hour of Clinimix E 5/15: at or under the label's adult maximum of 1.67. Central vein only.
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What you enter
- Formulation (amino acid percent / dextrose percent)
- Patient weight (adult)
- Weight unit
- Rate (or enter volume and hours)
- Volume per day
- Hours it runs over
How this is calculated
Citation
FDA labels on DailyMed: Clinimix E and Clinimix, Table 2 (maximum infusion rate in adult patients, by formulation, and which are for a central vein only); Kabiven (2.6 mL/kg/hour, 40 mL/kg/day, central vein only). Read the sources: Clinimix E label ↗, Clinimix label ↗, Kabiven label ↗
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