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Anyone know of a max dose on adults?? if you use .3mg/kg you can easily go over 20mg per vial --which is all we carry. any thoughts. Geoff Patty RN Two thoughts. One you can get the etomidate 20cc vials that would give you
a total of 40 mg per vial. We carry a couple of these in our drug pack.Two- I
can find numerous references in numerous Anesthesia texts of 0.3mg/kg up to
0.6mg/kg for an induction dose of etomidate. As far as a max I don't know if you
refer to the initial induction or total dose you can use. There
are references of Anesthesia running etomidate 10ug/kg/min IV with N2O and
an opiate for maintenance of general anesthesia. The only caution I can find is
it states only for short periods of time due to inhibition corticosteroid
synthesis. The Book I refer to is ANESTHESIA by Ronald Miller 5th edition
ISBN0-443-07988-9 (set) pages 245-249 Chapter 9 references 237, 246, 248 249.
Hope this helps.
Brent Grady
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