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How to Give IV Epinephrine to an Emergency Patient
To administer IV epinephrine efficiently, it is important to consider the dosing. If not in cardiac arrest, the recommended dose is 1 microgram per kilogram. This comes from pediatric resuscitation guidelines in Australia and the UK. For a 50 kilogram child, the dose is 50 micrograms, which is equivalent to half a milliliter of a 10 milliliter solution.