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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Aminophylline


- for Asthma, bronchospasm; - Adult Loading Dose: 6mg/kg IV over 20 min; - maintenance 0.6 mg/kg/hr IV infusion; w/ CHF, Liver dz, or elderly pts maintenance dose = 0.3 mg/kg/hr IV; - will need to individualize doses;; - Acute Asthmatic Attack: Load 6mg/kg IV, then 1 mg/kg/hr IV; - Watch serum values: 10-20ug/ml is theraputic; - Peds: 12-20 mg/kg/day (1-2 mg/kg/dose q 6hr prn) - Supplied: tab 100, 200 mg - Toxicity: includes: N, V, Tachycardia Seizures,



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.