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Clark's rule is a medical term referring to a mathematical formula used to calculate the proper dosage of medicine for children aged 2–17 based on the weight of the patient and the appropriate adult dose. [1] The formula was named after Cecil Belfield Clarke (1894–1970), a Barbadian physician who practiced throughout the UK, the West Indies ...
Emergent intramuscular dosing can be given if child is not tolerating oral medications or unable to get IV within 15 minutes. IM hydrocortisone sodium succinate doses are: [3] 25 mg for child 3 years and younger; 50 mg for children >3 yrs – 12 years; 100 mg for children 12 years and older.
Methylprednisolone dose and duration have been implicated in PAE development. 20 mg/day of prednisone (16 mg/day of methylprednisolone) is the threshold dosage for PAE development agreed upon by many studies. [24]
The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as pre-pubescent children transition into adolescence, and then adulthood. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics , such as the size of the breasts ...
Prednisone is a synthetic pregnane corticosteroid and derivative of cortisone and is also known as δ 1-cortisone or 1,2-dehydrocortisone or as 17α,21-dihydroxypregna-1,4-diene-3,11,20-trione. [ 42 ] [ 43 ]
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Cyclophosphamide is used at 500 mg per dose for 6 doses every 2 weeks over a one-month period or six 500 to 750 mg intravenous doses per square meter of body surface for 3 years to treat severe cSLE disease and as induction therapy for lupus nephritis. Patients taking these regimens may develop bone marrow suppression, susceptibility to ...
It's become a referendum on our nation's values; a competition between two wildly different visions of what the future could and should hold. Here are 10 reasons every American woman should exercise her right to vote come November 8.