Emergency Drugs
EMERGENCY DRUGS Emergency drugs or life saving drugs EMERGENCY DRUGS DOSES Drug (concentration) and Indication Dose Administration / Remarks Adenosine (3 mg/ml) Acute treatment of supraventricular tachycardia 1st 0.1 mg/kg/dose 2nd 0.2 mg/kg/dose 3rd 0.3 mg/kg/dose Rapid IV push over 1-2 seconds Flush line immediately with 5-20 ml NS Infuse as close to IV site as possible IO administration also successful Atropine (0.1 mg/ml) Bradycardia 0.02 mg/kg/dose IV May repeat x 1 dose in 3 minutes Calcium gluconate (100 mg/ml)= 9.4 mg elemental calcium /ml Cardia arrest Hypocalcemia 100 mg/kg/dose IV Not for IM or SQ use May repeat x 1 dose, then dose per ionized calcium results Administer by slow IV push for cardiac arrest, infuse over 30-60 minutes for other indications. Stop infusion if HR is greater than 100 bpm. Do not give intra-arterially. Dextrose 10% (0.1 Gm/ml) Hypoglycemia Hyperkalemia in combination with insulin 0.2 Gm/kg/dose IV as D10W Then continuous infusion of D10W