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How to Draw a Peak & Trough
Peak and trough graphs are used when observing a phenomenon or procedure involving different levels of a substance. For example, if you were observing the amount of oxygen produced by a respiring plant over a day, a peak and trough graph wo... Read More »
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When to draw vancomycin peak?
1 hour after the dose is completed, typically. Read More »
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What is the ICD9 code for vancomycin trough?
There is no specific code for that. I am assuming you want the code to drop off a lab. In that case you could use V58.62 (long term AB use) or code the infection being treated such as sepsis. Or V09.9 Infection with drug-resistant microorga... Read More »
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Peak and trough are methods used to establish the effectiveness of a drug. Peak is drawing the serum blood levels after the drug is administered as it distributes rapidly and reaches its peak in therapeutic range. Trough is drawing the seru...
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CBC and ESR can be run off of a EDTA tube. CMP and VANC may require two separate tubes depending on hospital policy. CMP is usually run off of a green top (Lithium Heparin) tube and I'm not sure on the VANC tube.
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Yellow or serum tube
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Trough levels are typically drawn 30 minutes before the infusion of gent and peak level drawn 30 minutes after the infusion is complete. Usually this is done with the 3rd or 4th dose of gent.
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This relates to when you are taking your doses. A peak occurs about an hour after a dose, if taken orally, and the trough is when you are due for another dose. Imagine a graph of how much medication is in your body. It would look like waves...
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Red top, no gel.
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