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Calcium Chloride 10% Class
Electrolyte
Calcium Chloride 10% Actions
Increases cardiac contractility
Calcium Chloride 10% Indications
1. Acute hyperkalemia
2. Acute hypocalcemia
3. Calcium channel blocker (Nifedipine, Verapamil) overdose
4. Antidote to magnesium sulfate overdose
5. Abdominal spasms associated with spider bite or Portuguese Man-O-Way strings
Calcium Chloride 10% Contraindications
Patients recieving digitalis (can result in sudden cardiac death from VF)
Calcium Chloride 10% Precautions
1. Extravasation may cause tissue necrosis
2. Precipitates with sodium bicarbonate to form calcium carbonate (chalk)- if needed to give then flush tubing very well between each
3. slow IV push (rapid push can cause VF)
Calcium Chloride 10% Side Effects
1. arrhthmias (bradycardia, asystole, VF)
2. hypotension and vasodilation
3. nausea, vomitting
4. extravasation may cause tissue necrosis
5. coronary and cerebral artery spasm
6. metallic or chalky taste in mouth
Calcium Chloride 10% Dosage
2-4mg / kg of 10% solution over 5 minutes repeated every 10 minutes
Calcium Chloride 10% Route
IV
Calcium Chloride 10% How Supplied
Prefilled Syringe
: 1gm / 10mL
(1m ml of 10% solution
: 13.6 mEq Ca++)
Calcium Chloride 10% Pediatric Dosage:
Not indicated in newborns
20mg / kg IV or IO slowly, max 500mg
Author
ccs1471
ID
23345
Card Set
teex calcium chloride
Description
TEEX medic calcium chloride 10%
Updated
2010-06-13T18:07:28Z
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