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Deniz Tek, MD
San Diego

JAMA. 1986;256(13):1722.

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To the Editor.—

In the "Standards and Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC),"¹ the following errors were noted. On page 2941, the authors state that one ampule (400 mg) of dopamine hydrochloride, when mixed in 250 mL, produces a concentration of 800 µg/mL. Actually, the above formulation produces a concentration of 1600 µg/mL. The authors go on to say that 2-mg vials of nitroglycerin, when diluted in 250 mL, result in a concentration of 80 µg/mL. This would actually yield a concentration of 8 µg/mL. Finally, the authors give the initial dose of sodium nitroprusside as 10 to 20 mg/min. Such a regimen would cause a 70-kg patient to receive 20 to 30 times the maximum recommended dose, according to current product prescribing information (dosage range, 0.5 to 10 µg/kg/min).

While such inadvertent manuscript errors might be considered trivial in the general medical literature, they . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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