memorizing drug dosages

[nev]

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Is there an easier way to memorizing drug dosages? How do you keep up with all those ACLS drugs dosages?

 

[EM_Rebuilder]

Is there an easier way to memorizing drug dosages? How do you keep up with all those ACLS drugs dosages?

Run a few codes, they will be imprinted.

As you write for and actually use drugs, you will get down the common doses of drugs you use regularly. Otherwise, even old attendings ask for someone to look up such and such..

 

[Blade28]

After a while you'll get used to it.

In ACLS, there are only a few important numbers to remember:

1 for epi
1 or 0.5 for atropine
40 for vaso
300 or 150 for amio
1-1.5 or 0.5-0.75 for lido

Then again, these are fresh in my head because I just took ACLS. And as EM_Rebuilder said, once you use these in a few codes, you'll remember them.

As for other common meds, once you start internship you'll learn them quickly due to the sheer number of times you write orders/prescriptions.

 

[nev]

Thanks for the replies, guys. Besides from those ACLS drugs , how do you memorize drug dosages for other drugs in med school?
Thanks
Nev

 

[Blade28]

Again, it's just practice, practice, practice. After you've written orders for the same meds over and over again, you'll have those dosages burned into your memory.

For example, in G Surg, we write for the following meds all the time:

Pain meds:
Percocet, Vicodin, Lortab, Dilaudid, Toradol

ABX:
Ancef, Keflex, Rocephin, Vancomycin, Levaquin, Flagyl, Zosyn, Bactrim

GI:
Colace, Dulcolax, Fleets, GoLytely, Nexium, Pepcid, Protonix, Phenergan, Zofran

DVT:
Heparin, Lovenox

Etc.