What is it about?
Staff are often required to calculate drug doses, and they use a variety of methods to do this. We investigated which method was the most accurate, and which was fastest.
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Nomograms are considered 'old fashioned' and are seen as a way of estimating rather than calculating. This work demonstrates that they are actually more accurate than the other methods assessed.
Dr Jason D Walker
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board
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This page is a summary of: The accuracy of timed maximum local anaesthetic dose calculations with an electronic calculator, nomogram, and pen and paper, Anaesthesia, February 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/anae.13810.
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