Acyclovir prehydration in peds/neonates?
Hi all,
My hospital system recently started accepting pediatric patients including neonates and I was tasked with developing order sets for pediatric and neonates to ease our transition and standardize everything for our system. I was working on the antimicrobial section and thought, well do we need prehydration in peds with how much water they have? This is unfamiliar territory for us and I couldn’t find anything specific with peds/neonates with regards to prehydration or preferred hydration volumes if administering IV acyclovir (I know already a grey area lol). I was hoping a colleague at a pediatric hospital might be able to send me a protocol or send some literature that I can base this off of.