Dosing & Calculations
Dose Lab
A patient, a prescription, a concentration on the shelf. Calculate. Grading is deterministic, and a near-miss is diagnosed: the workspace recognizes the classic wrong turns and points at the exact step to recheck.
dose · foundations
- Patient weight
- 28.7 kg
- Prescribed
- amoxicillin oral suspension 90 mg/kg/day divided BID
Calculate the amount of drug per dose, in mg.
mg/dose
Formula
dose (mg) = dose rate (mg/kg/day) × weight (kg) ÷ doses per day
Standard pharmacy calculations; verify agent-specific rates in a current reference.