How Safemedicate Can Assist Learners’ Efforts To Perform Optimal Bodyweight Dosage Calculations
There may be a need for medications, especially those for children, to be prescribed in accordance with the bodyweight of the patient, or even their body surface area (BSA). Medication dosage calculations that account for a person’s weight are particularly common on paediatric wards. The bodyweight of an adolescent for example will be significantly more than that of a newborn baby. As such, it is easy to understand the importance of accurately prescribing the correct dose to be administered. safeMedicate will teach you the importance of factoring in the patients bodyweight or BSA when calculating and administering certain drugs, for example, antibiotics, drugs used to treat epilepsy or drugs administered during or following surgical procedures. The role of our own learning environments in ensuring accurate dosage The safeMedicate suite of programs – offered by the market-leading company Authentic World Ltd – encompasses a range of learning and assessment modul...