Vanco dosing tool

August 7, 2014

VANCOMYCIN and aminoglycosides dosing in the hospital setting can get extremely complex as any hospital pharmacist will advise; a pharmacist has created an app to support the dosing of vancomycin using established algorithms. Deanna Wung from UNC School of Pharmacy, North Carolina told Drug Topics that as a student, she had put her vancomycin dosing equations into a spreadsheet. “I realised later, on rotations, that this would be useful to practicing pharmacists and would make an excellent mobile app.” Wung was also careful in development of the app to leave enough flexibility for the pharmacist’s decision-making. To see the tool CLICK HERE.

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