push dose epinephrine

2 ways to make push dose epinephrine:

  • use 10 cc flush syringe, push out 1 cc flush, then draw up 1 cc cardiac amp epinephrine (1mg). This will give 1 syringe of 100 mcg epinephrine. Each cc of the syringe will give 10 mcg.
  • use 1 cc syringe, draw up 1 cc cardiac amp epinephrine. This will give 100 mcg epinephrine. Each 0.1 cc of syringe will give 10 mcg.1

Footnotes

  1. Scott Weingart, MD FCCM. EMCrit Wee – A New Way to Draw Up Push-Dose Epinephrine from Sam Ghali – Commentary Needed. EMCrit Blog. Published on April 26, 2023. Accessed on June 7th 2023. Available at [https://emcrit.org/emcrit/new-way-to-mix-push-dose-epinephrine/ ]. ↩