A nurse is assigned to care for a pediatric patient. The most common method for calculating pediatric medication dosage is based on the child's:
a. age.
b. height.
c. weight.
d. body surface area.
C
Different methods are used to calculate children's medication dosages. Most of the time, you use a child's weight to calculate the dose. You can use the ratio and proportion method, the formula method, or dimensional analysis to calculate a pediatric dose using body weight. Body surface area (BSA) is used in rare situations (e.g., determining chemotherapy doses). Refer to a pediatric or pharmacology resource and consult with a patient's health care provider or pharmacist if you have to calculate medications doses for a child. Age and height are not used directly in the cal-culation.
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