drug dosage help

For 4-numeral drug dosages, are commas used in the number? As in: 1,500 mg vs 1500 mg. I have the online BOS but have an awful time finding what I need. (If anyone has any good search tips for that thing, that would be much appreciated as well.) : ) ...

.... 25 mg one-half daily, .... 5 mg one daily. Should I type it like that ^^ or should I use numbers? - 25 mg 1/2 daily, 5 mg 1 daily?? I know the BOS says to type out one number when there are 2 consecutive numbers, but these are technically not consecutive since they are seperated by mg. I can't find any official rules on what I should do here. any help appreciated. ...

AGGHH, I am tired tonight. I am not sure if I am hearing Cardizem drip at 2 mg/hr or 10 mg/hr. Any help would be appreciated. I think I need an extra set of ears tonight. ...

My brain is not working this morning. The doctor dictates a clonidine dose as "one-tenth of a mg." How should I transcribe this? ...

AGGHH! I cannot tell if the doctor is stating prednisone 15 or 50 mg four times a day? Any ideas? I have googled and I can find prednisone in both dosages. ...

I transcribed a report where the doctor was stating a dosage for IM toradol. I could not make out if he was stating 50 or 60 mg. When I googled I found both; so, I left a blank and put the report on hold. The editor filled in the blank with 6 mg. Does this sound right to you? ...

Hi all, it is late and I am getting tired. I have a doctor stating the following, "He is placed on clindamycin 10 mg/kg per 5 mL every 12 hours. This is a 75 mg/5 mL solution." The patient is a child. I googled and can find bits and pieces of what I input, but nothing all together. I guess what I am questioning is, do you think he meant to say the first 5 mL, or do you think he was stumbling over it? Also, does the dosage seem correct to you? ...

I have one doc that keeps giving me an abbreviation. She will say Coreg 6.25 mg po bid then says W.C. Any ideas, anyone else every hear of this, my first time in 20 years. Cannot find anything. All input is appreciated :) ...

I am trying to verify a dosage for Cerebyx. The doctor is clearly stating 1000 mg, but I cannot verify this, and it seems high to me. It may be a loading dose as the patient had 3 witnessed seizures. Has anyone heard of Cerebyx given at 1000 mg IV? ...

Doctor dictates: Ambien 10 mg q 9 p.m. Just making sure how the 'q 9 pm' is transcribed. Is it like this: q.9 p.m. or q.9. p.m.?? Not sure....any help would be appreciated. I am new to the job and want to make sure i do this correctly.Thanks ...

Dr. states nitroglycerin 1/150 sublingual p.r.n. chest pain, but the patient's chart reads nitroglycerin sublingual 0.4 p.r.n. Are these two interchangeable or are they different? Thanks! ...

Doctor is giving medication list and says: "Erythomycin 0.5 s/l in-shrib-in to right eye." I'm assuming it is drops or ointment but don't know what in-shrib-in might mean and it's said very clearly. Any help would be appreciated. ...

Want to confirm vitamin B12 dose. Is it 100 mg, 1000 mcg?Thanks for your help. ...

The patient is doing okay from a depression standpoint and wishes to increase her Lexapro slightly. She has been on 30 mg and the panel of this is above the recommended dose from Hippocrates. In searching via Google it sounds like Hippocrates is a British reference guide? I am not sure if the doctor is saying the "panel" of this is above or something else. Any feedback would be great! ...

For a spinal epidural injection, I think this doc is saying 80 mg Depo-Medrol with 9 mL Lidocaine. The MT is putting 18 mg Depo-Medrol consistently. I think that's incorrect. ...

....is it acceptable to put it in? or leave it out as per the verbatim rule? As in "Augmentin 875 p.o." ...

Sometimes all you have is a list of medications and no context as to what they are for. Is there a place to search by dosage when that is all you can make out? I have one now that s/l edaquine 25 mg daily. Thanks. ...

The entire sentence is - She is also on oxycodone 30 mg 4 tablets a day for a total of 1140 mg med. (and when she says med she pronouces it clearly - she says 1140 mg em..ee..dee.) I've never heard of med and am stumped. ...

I am looking for a drug that s/l ah pos. I found APO, but that is usually for Parkinson's which the pt does not have. He does have CAD, CHF, t2 diabetes, hypothyroidism, hypercholesterolemia, PVD, MI, pneumonia. Any ideas? ...

Three drug names... She takes medication including Naprosyn and butalapap without any codeine. She was taking Aleve over the counter as needed and using her Leoprime loosely. The last one is just listen in medications taken,.. Utotalac ... he says it like U-total-lac. ...

In the ER, patient with asthma had s/l "serol," albuterol, Atrovent nebulized treatments. TIA!! ...

Sounds like "Hyoxymin" I cannot find a thing. Any clues? ...

S/l "soderal" 14 mg before dialysis. I checked sotalol and thats not it. Any ideas?? ...

s/l Cindamin capsules 30's 100 mg one daily. Patient has a history of DM, vulvular cancer, heart disease, chronic headaches, glaucoma, blindness, chronic bronchitis, heart murmur, history of heart attack, hepatitis and anemia. My first thought is cinnamon. ...

Patient has past medical history of allergies, tinnitus, Frey's syndrome, hypothyroidism, mitral valve prolapse, SVT, Raynaud's, scoliosis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, fibromyalgia and chronic low back pain. Thanks for any help. ...

Anyone familiar with what s/l Hymox, Hiamox, Himox, etc. etc. I thought the doc was dictating an antibiotic - then later s/l he said to use it p.r.n.- so not clear. At any rate, the sound of it was clear as I put above. Any help much appreciated. ...

I have looked for this drug all over the place online and I can't find anything that even comes close to it. This patient was admitted to the ICU for hyperkalemia and was put on an insulin-glucose infusion as well as Lasix to bring his potassium down. Then the doctor adds that he was also placed on s/l "kxlyte" to further help control it. He says that word twice and it sounds the same both times. Does anyone have any ideas? ...

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