Covid-19 patient on continuous infusions.On admission, patient weight documented to be (b)(6).10 days later, this writer was processing pharmacy orders and noticed while verifying drip orders that current weight listed as (b)(6) which does not correspond with the known size of the patient.Pharmacist asked rn re: discrepancy and was informed that weight has not been correctly registered for several days due to broken bed scale and inability to transfer patient to working bed due to fragile oxygen status (covid).Propofol that was previously ordered was running at appropriate (b)(6) dosing weight in iv pump.Patient on other weight-based drugs cisatracurium, which require proper attention to selecting correct dosing weight for programming for which we are currently alerting each other via sign out alert but creates a work around situation for maintaining safe dose calculation for continued treatments, gfr calculations.
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