SCCMPod-465 PCCM: Who's Got the Right Dose?
Pediatric advanced life support (PALS) guidelines include weight-based epinephrine dosing recommendations of 0.01 mg/kg with a maximum of 1 mg, which corresponds to a weight of 100 kg. But what are the actual practice patterns? Elizabeth H. Mack, MD, MS, FCCM, is joined by Martha Kienzle, MD, to discuss the article: Weight-Based Versus Flat Dosing of Epinephrine During Cardiac Arrest in the PICU: A Multicenter Survey, published in the October 2022 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Kienzle is an attending physician in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.