Gentamicin dosing
20 Aug, 08 | by Ian Wacogne
Use of a prescribing aid improved accuracy of prescription of gentamicin. Here.
This begs an interesting question. We’ve mostly become familiar in the UK with the British National Formulary for Children - BNFc - to aid prescribing. The strength of this book lies in the highly repetitive way in which the information is structured, and although at first many people found it harder to use than the excellent Medicines for Children - which it replaced - most of us have got used to it. But is a standardised way the best way to describe the prescription of all medicines? Should we have different ways of describing some of our more complex prescriptions?
